You never know how much time you'll have.

You aren't exactly the best judge of what is or isn't dangerous.

I was thinking, while I was running..." He paused. "About not hitting the trees, I hope.

Why didn't I just walk away? Oh right, because I'm a idiot.

I could really appreciate him now - could properly see every beautiful line of his perfect face, of his long, flawless body with my strong new eyes, every angle and every plane of him. I could taste his pure, vivid scent on my tongue and feel the unbelievable silkiness of his marble skin under my sensitive fingertips.

The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine.

Let me guess,' Ian said in a voice like ice. 'You fell on a rock.