“when I look in your eyes, one word leaps into my mind every single time: Forever.”

“When I look into your eyes, one word leaps to my mind every time: Forever.”

“I love you so much … I don’t want to live a single moment without you at my side.”

“He wrapped his palm around the back of her neck, possessive but tender as he gazed into his mate’s brown eyes. “She knows she’s got me, anyway she wants me. Forever, if I have anything to say about it.”

“Goddamn you. How can you still make me feel this way after all these years? Damn you for leaving me! And damn you for coming back like this, just when I thought you were gone forever and I might finally be able to forget you.”

“I love you. You are mine. In my heart, I knew that from the beginning. You are my beloved, Tavia, my only one.”

“I have to go to her, Lucan. For my own sanity, if nothing else. If I stay here, I'm not sure what good I'd be, to tell you the truth. She's the only thing that's held me together in a very long time. I'm a wreck for this woman, my friend. She owns me now.”