...It’s always only ever been you. And it always will be, Beth. You have my heart. My love. And my regret that I am not the man you deserve.

“You ask for too much, Iain,” she murmured. “More than I can give.”“Do I?”Moveme…”

“I have waited for this, Beth, this moment,” he whispered as he took her hands i…”

“Look your fill ” the creature murmured his voice as sweet and rich as syllabub …”

“The first time I met death, it was at a ball and we danced a waltz.”