I love you, Anya,” he said. “You are my soul.

Maybe I want to be tied down and forced to admit it

Yes, he would be gone, but she knew now what it meant to love. She might not know what it meant to be loved, but loving was almost as good.

I am not in the least forbidden. You may sample me all you choose.

Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable.

Ria snorted. “Leo’s pride rarely leaves the plains. What are they supposed to mate? The zebras?

Yes, Elizabeth.” Dash kept his voice low, but let it rumble with his arousal. “I lived for you and Cassie. But while I fought to live I dreamed, and it was this I dreamed of.