" When I came up the beach back there, do you have any idea how close you came to being thrown down in the sand and ravished there and then, before your mother, your father... before God Himself?”

“They would have killed you if you’d tried.”

He smiled. “I doubt that. In fact, it was your mother who suggested I just drag you off into the bushes and keep you there until you came to your senses. She said that was the only way your father managed to convince her she could be stronger with him than without him. "

― Marsha Canham , The Iron Rose (Dante Pirates, #2)