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silver as she stared back at me.  It was as if there was a spell cast between us, some kind of a truth spell.
    “And you know you should always listen to your inner voice, don't you?”  I whispered back, hardly daring to believe that she was finally listening to reason.  When she slid herself over to sit on my lap, I felt an overwhelming sense of relief that this crisis between us seemed to have passed.
    “Just hold me, Liam.  Please.  Just be here with me,” she murmured, as she curled herself up against me.
    “Always.  I’ll always be here for you.  Because I love you.”  I held her tightly against me, as I kissed the top of her head.  
    Now I wondered why on earth I hadn't told her that I loved her before.  Maybe then she would’ve trusted me, if she’d realised sooner how I truly felt about her.  Trouble was, ever since my mother had died, love wasn’t really a word that had existed in my vocabulary.  It had certainly never been a word used by my father.  Even the deep bond that existed between my brother and I had never been vocalised in any way.  But now it felt completely right to talk about love with Seraphina. 
    She tucked her head under my chin, as she curled her arms around my neck.  We couldn’t get physically any closer right now, with her lovely soft curves moulded against me, and it felt so good. 
    But I was disappointed that she hadn't felt able to tell me that she loved me too.  I thought, I really hoped anyway, that she felt the same as me, and I wanted her to acknowledge her feelings out loud, just as I had.  I wanted to be sure that she no longer saw me as some kind of a man-whore who was frightened of committing to just one woman.  That wasn’t me anymore.  But gutted as I was, I had to be patient.  I wanted the words to come from her heart, of own free volition, not to be reluctantly prised out of her.
    “It hurt so much, thinking that you were cheating on me,” she finally whispered.
    “But I wasn’t cheating.  You do accept that now?”  She nodded her head against my chest.  That was good, that was a huge step in the right direction.  Hopefully her move to Barcelona was now off the cards.  “What I don't get is, with that temper of yours, why didn't you come and confront me?  Why didn't you just march right in, shout and swear at me, go full out and slap my face?  At least then I could have answered you, and we could have got things straightened out there and then.”
    Sera just shrugged as she rested against me.
    “What would have been the point?  If you’d cheated, there was no going back.  What was done was done.  So I left, I just had to get away,” she sighed.
    “Seraphina, you have to stop running away instead of facing up to things.  It never solves anything.  You have to promise me that in future, whatever happens, however it looks, you will always talk to me about what’s going on, and not run out on me again.  Because I'm worried that Scott’s not done yet.  He might try again to split us up, so I want you to promise that you’ll always come and talk to me first, that you won’t keep jumping to the wrong conclusion.  Please don't run out on me ever again.”
    Sera pulled away from me so that she could look me in the face.
    “What else could Scott do?  What might he try?”
    I took a deep breath and then blew it out again.  How to explain?
    “I’ve known Scott for several years, and at first he seemed a decent enough bloke.  We were both into the ‘no strings’ sex scene, and we both enjoyed trying out new experiences.  So he knows things about me, and he’s seen me doing things that you might find pretty shocking.  ”
    “Go on.  What are you worried about?”
    “I can't really say specifically - but my gut instinct tells me he won’t give up easily, that he’ll try his hardest to dig up some kind of dirt to discredit me with you.  I’m telling you this because forewarned is forearmed.”
    It all sounded so sordid