“He took a breath. “My future wife’s in the police...“Wait, wait, wait. How long have you been going out with this woman?”Luca cleared his throat again, this time with deserved sheepishness. “We met...”

“What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.”

“Sky, wait. The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.”

“I'm not going to do it again," Lena Marquez whispered to the red purse across the hall from her nestle of blankets. "Never again.”