Substitute for Love (34 page)

Holly blinked away tears. “You sure know how to romance a girl.” She shrugged into one of the jackets and then slid across the bike seat.

Reyna bent over her to secure the helmet, then kissed her again. “Would you mind going to the same place as before? I want to finally have a tonight become a tomorrow there. I think I’ll believe it then, that the past has actually led to this future. With you.”

Holly wrapped her arms tightly around Reyna’s waist and let the wind blow away the past. She felt fused to Reyna again, one body, one heart, one skin between them. Tomorrow was subject to random chaos — her intellect told her it was unquantifiable. But she had the constant she needed to solve the equation, at least for herself. The constant was their future. It was the only solution that mattered.