“You want me to paint you?’ Genna spoke up raising an eyebrow of displeasure.‘All of me.’ James bowed his head to Genevieve and whispered the words slowly.”

“I think now we are simply strangers with some memories.”

“He hadn’t saved her. He hadn’t even bothered trying.”

“You want me to paint you?’ Genna spoke up raising an eyebrow of displeasure.‘All of me.’ James bowed his head to Genevieve and whispered the words slowly.”

“Seeing him again had been a gut punch.”

“She felt damned. As though she were marching to her death. She felt like had been sentenced. And yet she felt eerily free.”

“Their conversation was like root canal without anaesthesia.”

“It has been utterly exhausting to love you.”

“After two decades there she was, in front of him, almost within touching distance, not faded like in his dreams, but bright and clear and vividly real, looking comfortably, almost defiantly, the same as she always had and then everything she had never been.”

“Talking to you is like talking to someone I’ve never met before. When did you become so competitive? When did you decide that you needed to win all of the time?’He stopped dead in the promenade and grabbed her hand, turning her to face him.He caught her by surprise. She leant her neck backwards slightly in defence.‘When I lost you.”

“In front of him stood the woman of his dreams, giving him one last chance to kiss her.Reason didn’t stand a chance.”