"Because I don't want Eothian, I'm not going to leave the house and go and be with him, I don't want that. Why can't you understand why I can't do this?"

"I love you so much it hurts, so much that I'm so close to saying you can be with her and I if it will mean I can be with you. But I can't. How could you even think about going to work, then going to see her and being with her before you come home and spend time with Bella and I and then climb into bed with me?"

He reached out a wet hand and brushed it over Fia's cheeks, "Please don't ask me to do this, because I know I'd say yes and then it would end up killing me inside."