Dreams Do Come True

the long version

"I will never let you leave me." His lips came down on hers and swept away her fear, her unhappiness, and everything except the rapture of knowing that this was what Odetta had been longing for and thought she had lost forever. He kissed her while time stood still and yet she felt as she had at the cascade in the Bois, that he carried her up into the sky and they were one with the stars and no longer human but divine.