Tessonja Odette

“How can you not see what you do to me? You make me feel the way books do. Things I never had to feel as a wolf. Things I’ve only begun to feel since I met you.”

I despised my attraction to you, and yes, it was there from the start. I hated the thought of you feeling the same about me.

Gemma, I love you.”

I’ve never been so sure of anything in my life.”

How did I ever live without this before? Without you?”

“Yes, my love. You have me. So long as I live, I am yours.”

“I’m not leaving. I’m staying right here. Independence doesn’t require running away and being alone. I can have freedom and still live amongst others.

Never forget, no matter where you go, that I love you, Elliot Rochester.”

“Honestly, I don’t care what you call me,” he says. “Call me Elliot, Flauvis. Anything. So long as I’m yours.”

I return to my plate, but I’m almost too happy to eat, my heart full and warm in ways I never thought possible a year ago.