Carpe Diem. Take the risk. Live your life. Grasp the chance. Seize the day. Life is too short and too precious to live in regret or dream away. Stephanie Plum, the 30-something blue-eyed wild-haired bounty hunter who wanted to be Wonder Woman when growing up, nods to herself in the dim darkness, and, with steel determination, reaches out a shaking hand toward the all too perfect Promised Land, and bravely grabs hold of it.
"Babe," Ricardo Carlos Manoso, aka Ranger, the former elite special-forces officer who's still indisputably the elite of the elite, the best of the best, eats drug lords, human traffickers and their thugs and minions as snacks, slams villains and criminals into walls for pleasure, with one single punch knocked one certain hairy Italian Stallion out colder than a dead frozen fish and smashed his jaw into many tiny pieces, and who now, finally, does relationship, half whispers, half sighs as his live-in girlfriend gropes his butt. "We're inside Joyce Barnhardt's closet."
And? Silently the twinkling, dreamy turquoise blue eyes he loves so much whisper back. He almost never denies her anything when she looks at him like this. So he caves, and gives in.
~End of Kiss 1: Just Do It~