Karen sighed into the kiss and, for a moment, all seemed right with the world. And then it hit her like a brick that she was in his embrace in the middle of her bedroom, kissing him as if the world was about to end, to a man she didn't know that well at all, whom she just agreed to move in with and marry. She broke the kiss and looked at him. She wasn't changing her mind, but it was all very overwhelming indeed that this was happening. What if her brother walked in? Oh, bother her brother! He would just fight with her about it anyway, no matter what she did! She wasn't going to fight this time, she was just going to let him rant and rave and she was going to tell it like it was, that she was a grown woman and her choices were valid.