I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.

She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.

But not all scars showed, did they?

Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.

People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?

Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.