His mouth still near my ear, he says, “I’ve never met anyone I needed to possess like you. I don’t understand it, this obsession. For you, for a single taste of you, I would die. I’d give up anything. From the first day, you owned me.” I close my eyes. A lone tears slips from one corner and slides over the bridge of my nose. “Tell me you’re mine.” I whisper, “You know I am. Forever.”
