ELowell – Too Hot to Handle

Don’t be ridiculous, she told herself. It’s the same moon that you ‘11 see tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. Same world. Same everything. Except Reever and the Sundance. They’ll be gone. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

It tore me apart to watch, but I had to know you were all right. I wanted to go to you, help you, and I knew if I went any closer, I would take you down into that soft grass and love you until you didn’t know where you were, who you were, until you could touch me and not know whether it was my skin or yours you were feeling, my body or yours, because we would be so deep in each other that it would be like dying and being born all over again. It’s never been like that for me with a woman, but I know it would be like that with you. I know it, and it’s tearing me apart

„I sat on that damned ridge this afternoon and I watched you through the glasses and I hated myself for hurting you like that. I watched you walk all the way back to the ranch, and I wanted you until I felt like knives were turning in me