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

Never run out on me again. No matter what happens, you stay and fight. Yell at me, argue, throw something at me, whatever you want to do, but never walk away from me. Promise me that.

Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing on a man. Where women might get hormonal once a month, men suffered their own brand of PMS on a daily basis. - Faith

But if I lost you, it would devastate me as nothing else has or ever could. You have so much power over me and that’s frightening.

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

He was better than any drug, any remedy for her illness.

Is there something wrong?” he asked. She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze blowing off the lake. “You could hold me now.” It was almost his undoing. “Ah baby.