Dragoncrest Cliffs The heart is something you can't control.

She could see how clearly he lost himself when speaking of her. He was not settling then, or testing the waters even. This was something deeper already.

Though she had no favorites amongst their combined children, Reyes perhaps reminded her most of herself. She'd worried after his safety but also after his happiness. It was easy to allow the world to turn you hard and she'd seen his walls just as she'd held her own. Walls she'd maintained until Erzulie, somehow, had deftly surmounted them.

I'm glad to hear it. Both that he'd found something like this and that he still carried himself within it. Sometimes we all need to be called on our shit. She smiled knowingly, thinking fondly of her own wife.

Even if it is not always easy, the difference is clear. When you do fight, there's no other option. Because neither of you are willing to lose what you have. She and Erzulie had held their own share of arguments but it had never shaken the foundation of their ties. She couldn't imagine anything ever being strong enough to divide them in that way.

I hope it stays the way you say. But you will know, otherwise. And it sounds like there already is a difference. This Towhee did not sound worth the consideration, mother of her grandchildren or no. A woman had no obligation to give up her name, but to hear she was so against even considering her son's wishes set Rosalyn's opinion against her. Sometimes things like these happened for a reason.