Crimson Rapture (58 page)

He
reached a hand to tenderly brush her face and she took that hand in her own and
brought it to her lips. He could not believe what he was hearing. He could
believe the love in the wide gray eyes. "Christina," he whispered in
turn, "I don't deserve this."

"But
it's yours," she said as tears filled her own eyes. "Yours with the
promise that you'll never let me go again."

Justin
swept her into his arms, and while he could not yet manage to say it, his arms
and his lips, indeed his entire being spoke for him. He would never let her go.
Not for anything on earth or in heaven. Not now and not in a distant forever.
Never.