To Love Again

Christi was twenty-two to Lucas's thirty-seven. They had lived in adjacent flats for four years now, and though Christi had been in love with her handsome divorced neighbor ever since they'd met, Lucas had treated her with the affection of a big brother. Christi had tried everything to get him to see her as a desirable woman, like the sophisticated beauties he squired around London. Yet nothing seemed to work. Until the evening she convinced him to demonstrate to her how a man should kiss. And when he complied, everything changed....