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I__ sure you remember our first encounter, the morning in the kitchen in North Carolina, and what a disaster it turned out to be,_ Carmine said.__hat you don__ know, though, is that as we sat like idiots in that puddle of juice, all I could think about was how beautiful you were. How beautiful you are. You were scared and confused, and I know I wasn__ helping that, but underneath it all you were just beautiful, Haven. You had me the very first time I laid eyes on you. I remember thinking later that morning you were going to complicate my life._ He paused as he laughed to himself. __nd complicate it you did. Everything I knew, everything I believed_._._. all of it went out the window. You turned me upside down and made me feel again. You saved my life, even though I didn__ realize it needed to be saved. I thought I was fine, that I didn__ need anyone else, but I was wrong, because I do. I need you. Christ, I___e grasped her chin gently and leaned forward, her eyes drifting closed as their lips came together. His kiss was sweet but there was passion behind it_._._. passion she looked forward to feeling for the rest of her life.