That is my request to you, more of the same. I wanted to speak with you to confirm Annie’s high regard for you, and I think I have done that. I don�...�t believe there is any likelihood that you’re going to misuse the trust that she is giving you.’ ‘I like to think that I’m a good judge of character, even if I have to make that judgment solely on the sound of one’s voice. I sense that in you. I would ask only that you talk to me first if for any reason your feelings toward Annie should change.’. " So if I was jealous I would've kept Mark all to myself, and I would've lost having the second most wonderful love in my life: you! I would've made my life far less happy, your life far less happy, and what's worse, Mark's life far less happy. The three of us being married is far better for all of us, including me, than me trying to keep Mark for myself, isn't it?" Yes it is. You're right again. You've made my life incredible, and I'll try my best to make Mark's life better too, especially by. . I saw your situation as a wake-up call, I guess. It made me realize that life was short and that I could either put up or shut up. So I called her house, and her parents said that she was staying over here comforting your sister, so I took a chance and biked over. I confessed to her how I’d been feeling about her and for how long.“She was very sweet about it all, but she basically told me to go and jump in a lake,” he said with a laugh. “She told me that she’d been in love with you for over. I wanted to cast out this pain. It would make this so much easier. I made my deal. The phylactery was about to be destroyed. I had to slip away while they all had their focus on the altar.I gathered the shadows, pulling them around me. I made myself fade, blending in with the dancing umbral on the ground. The darkness wrapped around me. I felt something trembling through me. I seized more of the shadows than I could before. I didn’t make myself fuzzy and hazy, but I vanished. I hid myself so.