"I can't just storm in and proclaim my intensions. I can't 'steal' you away. I just have to wait and hope that, someday, you'll ask," Tamani said.

"And if I don't?" Laurel said, her voice barely above a whisper.

"Then I guess I'll be waiting forever."

"I care about you. And when you look at me with that softness in your eyes," he said, fingers pressing just a little more firmly, "and you look for all the world like you want to be kissed, then I'm going to kiss you, David be damned," he finished quietly.

It didn't matter to her that Tamani only had weak magic, he was magic.

"Tell me" he said, his voice sharp and demanding. "Tell me David is all you need or want out of life." his face was close to her, his soft breath caressing her face "that you never think of me when you are kissing him, that you dont dream of me the way i dream of you. Tell me you dont love me"