"I always appreciate your words," I told him.

　　"And then you love it because it came from me."

　　He was correct in every way. If he hadn't said those few words to me, I never would have loved them the way I do now.

　　"How were you able to tell?" I asked him while taunting him, and he laughed before giving me a quick kiss on the lips.?

　　I did kiss him back passionately and for a considerable amount of time while he was making me lay down on the ...