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trust Mason enough to be truthful. “I love you. I thought you’d changed your mind and left. I didn’t know what to do and you know I’m never that way. I can handle anything. Anything it seems, but losing you.”
    Before he grabbed her tightly in his warm arms, she saw the brightness of tears in his eyes. “Oh, honey, I couldn’t leave you. I love you too much. I just went to grab more clothes and some breakfast for us. I thought you’d sleep through me leaving. I would have left a note otherwise.”
    He peppered her face with kisses before drawing back to look into her blinking gaze. “You love me?”
    This time her eyes watered with happy unshed tears. “Oh, Mason, until I thought I’d lost you, I never knew I could love one person this much. I want to do whatever it takes to make this work between us.”
    Warm lips brushed hers. “As long as we remember to love each other, we’ll do fine.” He drew back enough to wink at her. “Unless my twenty-four hours is up?”
    Courtney threw her forty-one-year-old arms around the man of her every dream. “We have a lifetime of twenty-four hours together. It will never be over.”
    He smiled then drew her down on the couch to cement their love with their bodies and hearts, knowing twenty-four hours would never be enough for their love.

About the Author
     
    Allie Standifer has lived in various places around the world. The gift of travel enables her to create the rhythm and feel of far-off places and feed an overactive imagination. Her life has been one of constant adventure, including growing up in Saudi Arabia, where her brother tried to sell her to Bedouins (for what amounts to less than $1.50). It’s been nonstop; she loves every minute of it.
      Ideas, plots, characters and conversations keep her company inside her head and fuel her need to write. And no, they don’t tell her to start fires.  :)  Tired of everyday stories, Allie adds paranormal twists to her tales. They’re filled with past lives, chain-email-sending oracles, mythical creatures, magic, sexy gods, and heroines who know exactly what they want—and aren’t afraid to go get it.
      Free time is spent spoiling two nieces and two nephews, pumping them up on sugar and caffeine and buying very loud toys then sending them back to their parents. The perfect revenge for all the slights of being the youngest child. When not writing or contributing to the delinquency of minors, or trying to outsmart her psycho cat, she spends time with her wonderful and supportive family.
     
    Allie welcomes comments from readers. You can find her website and email address on her author bio page at www.ellorascave.com .
     
     
     
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