I am going to love you now, slow and sweet.

I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion.

Turn it off," Ryodan says without even looking at me. "You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me.

For what other reason would you have me save you? Because I like you? Better to be useful than liked.

I am going to love you now, slow and sweet.

You're grumpy and broody and secretive all the time. You're no joy to live with, I can tell you that!""I smile sometimes. I even laughed about your . . . hat.""MacHalo," I corrected tightly. "It's a brilliant invention, and it means I don't need you or V'lane to keep my safe from Shades, and that, Jericho Barrons, is worth its weight in gold: not needing either of you for something!

Do you think a woman can give a man everything while still withholding her heart? We are not made that way! - Fiona