" So She watched and listened instead. She watched Connor reach over to flick a tear from Meara's cheek as she minced onion, and caught the easy flirtation in the gesture in his eyes.

"If you were mine, Meara my love," he said," I'd ban onions from the house so you'd never shed a tear."

"If I were yours," She shot back," I'd be shedding them over more onions, "

― Nora Roberts , Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #1)