“I just want to be there when you come home at night.”

“Be whoever you want to be. Party all night if you want. Just come home to me.”

“Maggie. When we make love, I want it to be special. Not some quickie in your bedroom before your parents come home. I want more than that for us. I want to be able to hold you all night and feel you against me as I fall asleep. I want us to be perfect together.”

“What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.”

“Listen to me, Ria. It will be different when you and I have a home. It will be a real home, one that people will want to come running back to.”

“I don't want to fight," she whispered. "Just come home.”