by Lucy Gordon
'If you'd told me that you loved me, I'd have trusted and believed you,' she said fervently. 'And I could have said that I love you.'
'I wasn't sure that you did. You tried so often to warn me that you couldn't love me.'
'That was foolish of me. I love you with all my heart.'
'If you say that, I have nothing else to want. I know now that I was wrong. Not everyone leaves. I'm not going to let you leave me.'
He kissed her fiercely, letting his passion make the argument for him, feeling her response give him the answer that said more than speech.
'Are you sure it isn't a risk?' she murmured.
'Maybe. My risk.'
'Our risk.'
He nodded. 'Our risk. But love is always a risk, and I'll take it if you will.'
The gondola was leaving the centre of the city behind, leaving the music, the dancing and the wild figures, drifting into the semi darkness, where the little canals were illuminated only by tiny lamps and silence waited around every corner.
He took her hand in his, holding it tightly.
'If there is any safety in the world,' he said, looking at their clasped hands, 'it's here. But perhaps we shouldn't ask for safety, just a light showing the way to the next canal, and perhaps the one after that.'
She didn't answer in words, but when he released her hand and laid his lips on hers she gave herself up to him completely. All turmoil stilled. All questions answered.
Behind them the gondolier rowed silently, taking them towards the light that showed the way to the next canal, and the one after that, and then onward to wherever the future led.
Lucy Gordon
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