" Don’t give up on me. I’m not used to…I’ve never needed anyone, Mila. No one has ever mattered to me the way you do.” He put her hand over his heart, adding, “I thought I’d be in control of how and when you got in here, but it turns out I’m not. You made your own way into there, and that realization knocked me on my ass, but I’m back up again. "

― Suzanne Wright , Untamed Delights (The Phoenix Pack, #8)