CHAPTER 39

Pulling away from their tight embrace, Zary looked at him. Before she could speak, he cupped her face and gently wiped away her tears with his thumbs. And then she found herself kissing his lips. “That day… I really thought that everything was over. But here I am feeling more alive than I ever had, thanks to you, Sam. I’m really happy. Without you, I don’t think I would have ever experienced all these different things and feel a lot of these wonderful emotions.” She was smiling so genuinely and happily as she said those words to him, but her tears also flowed harder. So she kissed him again, not wanting him to see the new emotions that rose within her heart. He had awakened something in her right now. And it made her wish that she did not have to die. Not now. Not in just a couple of months.