Awareness of him crashed straight down into her when he finally touched her. God, she was starved for this, so much that even the soft touch he ran across her shoulder and down her back was enough to increase the temperature of her skin by a few degrees. She turned her face against his chest and squeezed her eyes shut. All her thoughts had turned into one long repetitive string of two syllables - his name, echoing in her head.
But when she looked up at him and saw his expression, she realized that he didn't see it. She'd shuttered herself so completely from the world that it was apparently impossible for Aidan - Aidan - to recognize what she wanted. And she wanted --
"Please remind me." What it was like. What it used to be, between them, before they'd been separated. What it should have been after the fair, when both their hearts were too full of love to manage anything without laughter. She still felt that overwhelming spring of emotion, but not from just one part of her - from both. She reached for one of his hands and put it on her waist. She set the other at the back of her neck. "I have missed you." She said it calmly, but with an underlying tension that seemed anything but calm. "I need you."