Chapter 7

From some floating place about a mile high where sensations had sent her, she sensed vague thoughts come and go.Oh man, sex never felt like this before. What’s different? Why?

But she already knew—because this was Wes, not just some horny cowboy she’d hooked up with at a dance. That was fucking. This is something else, something as spectacular as Wes is special. I always felt like he was meant to be more to me, but I never thought I could bridge the gap and become anything but Gid’s kid sister to him.

From that point on, they rocked together in a dance that escalated to a faster and wilder rhythm. It took them both up in the dizzy spiral of a hawk riding the thermals, vanishing into the sun-splashed endless sky.