How to Bake the Perfect Pecan Pie (21 page)

“Like a hawk.” Jack runs his finger down the side of my face and over my lips. He’s gazing at me as if he finds me amusing or maybe immature.

“Yes, like a hawk.” I have to stand by this description now.

“I’ve been called worse. But if I’m a hawk, then what does that make you? A little brown field mouse or… No, I think you’re a wild hare.” Jack runs his fingers through my hair. He pulls it together at the nape of my neck.

“A wild hare? Why didn’t you say a rabbit?”

“I think wild hare suits you better.”

“Maybe.”

His mouth meets mine again. The ground is disappearing beneath me. I’m dancing in the air, twirling around. There’s no gravity. I want this song playing on an endless loop. This melody reels in so many of my emotions.

Sunday is only a few days away. Seventy-two hours, four thousand three hundred twenty minutes, two hundred fifty-nine thousand two hundred seconds—so many numbers. I'm not a math person. I don’t want to add numbers. This isn’t about calculations. This is something more than math. This is real. This is pulsating, knocking me off my feet—it’s mesmerizing. I can hardly catch my breath because of these zinging vibrations that ignite from my lips to my fingertips. Maybe it’s possible for this—this non-math, this realness, this unexpected genuine emotion—to turn this kiss into something more than pecan pie.

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How to Bake the Perfect Pecan Pie

Copyright © 2014 Gina Henning

Published in Great Britain (2014)

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