QUOTE : I love you,” she whispers.<br /><br />“It’s only a week,” I tell her, but I loathe this separation as much as she does.<br /><br />Echo looks at me with those pleading green eyes. I twine my fingers into her curls. The first taste of her lips is sweet. The second makes me forget there’s a bus terminal full of people. The third causes me to lift her feet off the ground and deepen our kiss.<br /><br />“Noah,” she whispers in reprimand as she breaks away. “We’re causing a scene.”<br /><br />“Not my problem.” But I lower her to the ground anyhow. “Besides, it wasn’t my fault. You’re the one looking at me with take-me-to-bed eyes, and I felt you kissing me back. Once again, you’re the one getting us into trouble.”<br /><br />Echo grins. “You are so impossible.”<br /><br />“Damn straight, baby.