"Oh, I don't know if that sounds lucky," John says with a rumbling laugh as he undoes his belt and then unbuttons his trousers, then returns to the bed to properly stretch out over Karen, still in his briefs. He kisses her, deep and sweet, then pulls back to smile. "That sounds like a risk."

But he is so glad she took that risk on him. Everything in him would have said he hadn't deserved it, sometimes he still doesn't believe he does, that she's too good for him, too smart and deserving of a life better than the one he can give her.

But he wants to try.