I want you any way I can get you. Not because youre beautiful or clever or kind or adorable although devil knows youre all those things. I want you because theres no one else like you and I dont ever want to start a day without seeing you.

I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears your smiles your kisses...the smell of your hair the taste of your skin the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.

I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life if you were lucky you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect or because you were but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.

... He didnt know how to say good-bye. His throat ached from the strain of holding back his emotions. I dont want to leave you he said humbly reaching for her cold stiff hands.Emma lowered her head her tears falling freely. Ill never see you again will IHe shook his head. Not in this lifetime he said hoarsely.She pulled her hands away and wrapped her arms around his neck. He felt her wet lashes brush his cheek. Then Ill wait a hundred years she whispered. Or a thousand if I must. Remember that Nikki. Ill be waiting for you to come to me.

Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone the sheets wet with your tears and your seed knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.