His breath caught in his throat. Suddenly his gentle hold turned fierce. That strange otherness took a stronger hold, emotions ran parallel and merged. "Never. Never. No matter what happens, I'm sure we'll run into each other over and over again." He didn't understand! Their relationship was only a few days old, and yet he felt so strongly it eclipsed all else in his life. Emmery almost felt like he had finally found the inspiration for all his abstract art, the reason for all the colors. But that couldn't be true. They had only met a few days ago ... "Stop being like that. You'll make me cry." His voice trembled.