Valley of Dragons (The Secrets of Ormdale, #5)

by Christina Baehr

All men really!

“You’ve told Simon how you feel, haven’t you? And it hasn’t made a difference?”

Thank you! That is what I have been saying!

“I shall try to find someone else—in a year or so. And I’d like you to forgive me now, in advance, because I think it would be in dreadful taste to ever speak of it again.”

Please do!

“You—you don’t…mind?” “That you have secrets? Not unless they threaten to hurt you. And if they ever do, well then, my dear...” He leaned back in his chair with a smile that clashed with the coolness in his eyes. “Then you must come to me. And I will be sure to hurt them first.”

“Before you, I only ever experienced love as a hunger that I couldn’t fill. But—what did you say?—love is something that fills, and warms, and makes you more yourself. You do that for me, and you make me feel—as if I might do it back.”

Love doesn’t grow in cages, and secrets are the worst kind of cage.”