Coop smiled and squeezed her. “Well, thanks! And you better believe he did. Melendez was a man who knew when he had found a good thing.”<br/><br/>They were silent for a bit then, Cooper drawing looping, lazy circles on Sarah’s bare shoulder with his fingertips. There was nothing to add to the story; nothing much else to say about the garden, pretty as it was. This was right, for them to be sitting together watching the gathering darkness.<br/><br/>“It sure has been.” He nodded. Day gone, week half gone. Half their time together nearly over. His arm tightened on her shoulder as if he could trap the days, and he turned to meet her eyes.<em>Sarah, I...</em>He had to kiss her then, quick, before he began to say it. Even then he held it a little longer than he meant, and sat back with something like a sigh.<br/><br/>“Better get you inside. Feels like you’ve got goosebumps coming on.”