We’d been back together for four days. I thought that was pretty much the definition of ‘too soon’. Then again, we’d known each other for thirty-nine years and that was undeniably the definition of ‘about fucking time’.

“For what it’s worth, I’ll share my intentions. You and me, we aren’t practice f…”

“But between these two men she loved, both in one way or another holding her clo…”

“You defy me again, I'll take you to that bed and make you my queen right... fuc…”

“Bottom of my soul,” he whispered across the room, eyes locked to mine. I sucked…”