“Olivia watched him through a blur of tears, despising the futility of it. For there was nothing she could say to comfort a man whose family was long dead; there was no balm to heal wounds that scored a man's soul; and there was no way to make a man believe in the ties that bind.”
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“And that, the monster said, is not the truth at all.”
“Neamh," he murmered. '"Tis Neamh, you are, Olivia.”
“She wanted to inhale him. Devour him. Lick every inch of his incredible body.”
“It seemed she would not be able to ignore her duty; it had just arrived.”
“Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again.”
“Her body sighed, taking him in as if she'd been waiting for this her whole life. Perhaps she had.”