“During mating?”
“YES!”
“Oh, um, well, Demons do.”
Interesting.
That explains several awkward conversations throughout the twentieth century.
“I can’t believe this!”
“Um, I see.”
“You see?”
“Humans are strange.”
She throws her hands into the air.
“Humans are strange?”
“Very.”
She starts laughing.
Actually laughing.
Loud, helpless laughter.
I stare in confusion.
“Have I said something amusing?”
“You just gave me a permanent hickey and called me your wife!”
“I did not call you my wife. You are more than that, Myrrin.”
She points dramatically.
“Claiming! Marks! Everything I own is yours! Living for me! Desmond, we've known each other for six hours!”
I smile.
“Yes.”
“That's insane.”
“No, it’s fate, my love.”
“You can't love someone in six hours.”
I stand and approach carefully.
“Josie.”
She looks up.
“I have loved the idea of you for three hundred years.”