“You call me siren,” she said with a soft smile, loving the feel of his eyes on her. “The name is fitting, for if you sail too close, I think I mean to claim you. I will snatch the soul from your chest. It will be mine…but I’ll not marry you. Any of you. I can’t relinquish that power. I want to be free, Burke. Let me be free, and I will freely choose to…to love you.”
