The Becoming (The Dragon Heart Legacy, #2)

by Nora Roberts

“I watched Wonder Woman, I know the drill.” “Four times. You watched it four times.” He held up five fingers. “It takes a god to kill a god, that’s how it works, right?” “The daughter of the son is the bridge between worlds.” Breen felt the words, the thoughts, the truth simply flow into and out of her. “The bridge leads to the light or to the dark. Her path is threefold. Awaken, become, choose.”

Don’t make him less than he is. You of all people should know what it does to a mind, a heart, a spirit to be made less.”

“Girl, I’m stupid with the happy. I think I love him. I think he loves me.” Those big brown eyes of his looked into hers, implored. “Can you just fall in love—the real deal—just like that? Because I’ve fallen in the lusties, and the guy is hot or fun or interesting—all that real fast. But nothing like this, not for me.” “I don’t think love has a time clock. Fast or slow or anywhere in between, it just is. And you look happy.”

Love, the healthy sort, holds respect as well, and doesn’t ask another to break a trust.