"If you hadn't come down to save me at that time, you wouldn't have been hurt, and you wouldn't have..." Nora Smith looked up at him, and his eyes were full of distress and guilt.

Asher Hawn lowered her head and kissed her out of the corner of her eye, kissing away the glittering tears from her face.

His magnetic voice sounded in Nora Smith's ear, "Nora Smith, I am willing to save you, because you are my favorite woman, and I must protect you."

Nora Smith's heart was ...