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Wolf," she said. "Married is wonderful, married is lovely. But I loved you before that, and you were mine before that. Only you for me__nly me for you. That's how it was before our marriage." The smile fell away and left her pale and determined. "That's how it was when I found you in that pit trap all those years ago__ knew as soon as I first saw your eyes. But then, I've known all my life what love is. It took you, who had nothing to compare it to, rather longer to figure out, to understand what is between us. But even when you did not understand or recognize it__t was always love.

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone___ didn__ mean to startle her.