I can't believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do.
...she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer's wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields.
If you don't tell her just that, if you don't give her your heart, Aidan, if you don't bare it for her and give her the time to trust what she sees there, you'll never have her.
Love, even when pledged, isn't enough.
Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.
