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“Uh.” Laugher was already bubbling up. “Were you aware that a gorilla has taken up residence in your living room?”

“No way!”

She let the laughter out, heading back to the bedroom. No wonder he’d wanted her to get the water. “He is the perfect addition. Exactly what the room needed!”

He took the glasses from her while she climbed back into bed. “I was also thinking he might look nice in your house.”

“Mine?” Eva lowered her water. “You’d give him up to me so soon?”

“Oh, no, I wouldn’t do that. I love the big guy.”

She stared at him. “You are not making sense.”

“You know that call I have at four o’clock?”

“Now you’re making less.”

“Bear with me.” He took the half-drained glass from her and put it on his nightstand, set his own glass next to it. “It’s with a winery in central California. They’re looking for someone. I have a few more people I’ll be talking to next week. Thought I’d fly out there and find out if any of them want to meet me. See, I was sure the woman I love would be on the other side of the country. That wasn’t going to work for me.”

“Oh, my God, Ames!” She threw her arms around him, practically knocking him out of bed. “You’d do that for me?”

He chuckled, holding her close. “I would. You’ve opened up so many possibilities to me, Eva, that I never would have considered even a few weeks ago. You got me playing mini golf! But that was only the beginning. I feel as if I’ve been living my life with my head down, watching the sidewalk for cracks and dog poop, you know? Ignoring what’s around and above me. You gave me a new, full life, and I want to share it with you.”

“Oh, Ames.” Tears came into Eva’s eyes. She’d never felt this loved or cherished, never dreamed she could inspire this kind of passion and trust in someone who’d inspire the same in her. “You taught me not to be afraid anymore of who I am under these trappings, and what that woman wants. Which, by the way, is you. You have changed my life, too, and you have no idea what that means to me.”

“Maybe not.” He kissed her, kissed her again. “But whether we end up here or in California, I’m betting we have a lifetime for me to find out.”

* * * * *

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“IF THE GOOD Lord intended us to be naked, clothes wouldn’t have been invented.”

Kristine Zimmerman felt the urge to laugh, but restrained herself, shifting her phone from her right ear to her left as she surveyed the tables being set up for that Friday night’s art exhibit at Collective, the gallery that had just hired her as their events coordinator. “Mom, there are plenty of valid occasions for human beings to be naked.” She could think of at least three without even trying.