I cannot allow another man to take what I already consider mine.

Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.

No other man will have you

Here we are, a man and a woman, both wanting the same things, and yet, you aren’t attracted to me.

Said to Mairin; "There's little decency to good loving" Maddie said. "If 'tis decent, it isn't much fun"!

I love you, Eveline," he whispered, though he knew she could not hear him. "Somehow, I'll make you hear me and you'll know that I love you as fiercely as it's possible for a man to love a woman.

And maybe that’s was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her.