Here’s more from my fourth Konigsburg book, Long Time Gone. This follows right after last week’s excerpt, which, you may recall, was the first kiss between my hero, Erik, and my heroine, Morgan. Both are still a little taken aback by the whole thing. But not so taken aback that they’re not ready to do it again. Soon.

Her eyes were huge, her mouth a thin line. “I didn’t…” she stuttered, then stopped.

“I’m sorry about the call,” he said quietly, “I’m not sorry about the kiss. Not hardly.”

She still watched him, as if she were trying to make up her mind about something, then the corners of her mouth edged up, slowly. “Drive carefully.”