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How much do you love your partner?

(Excerpt from Chapter 26)

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“Okay, Tiger. What is it?”
“I was just thinking about this morning, when you called me
‘honey,’ and wondering why, after a year together, this has come
about. It is nothing really. I’m just curious.”
She thought about it for a minute, sipping coffee to see if it would
jump-start her brain. “I’m not sure if I can even figure it out for
myself, Dam. It’s almost like some part of my mind was still resisting
the whole thing, you and me. Even before bonding, I was very
attracted to you, beginning to love you. Maybe not as much as I hoped
to love someone I was married to, but our circumstances were a little
weird.”
He laughed, nodded his head and replied, “I suppose ‘a little
weird’ describes it pretty well.”

“Anyway,” she continued, swirling the coffee left in her cup,
“after our bonding, I felt closer to you, more comfortable with you,
and thought I loved you more than before. Maybe I did, I don’t know
now. But I’m not sure I loved you beyond physical, sexual attraction.
Am I making any sense?”
“I’m trying to understand, but am I about to be very
disappointed?”
“Hold on. I’ve not finished. I thought I loved you, wanted to love
you. I mean, if bonding means what you say it means, we’re together
forever. I hoped to God there was love in there somewhere. But it
worried me that I didn’t seem to love you enough, or in the right
way.”
“I believe you love me,” Damiano expressed earnestly. “And I
know beyond a doubt that I love you, cara. I loved you before we
were paired, adored you, had to have you. I would have died for you,
cara, before we were bond mates. And now? More than that, I love
you.”
“I know, Tiger,” she answered softly.

Ciao amici miei…