No one is nothing. Everyone has a place and a purpose. Some choose their purpose and others have it thrust upon them but no one is useless. Everyone is someone. The world has use for us all.

Protect us, Golden One. I believe we are all going to need it.

I made the decision. I want you more than I want heaven, more than I want to be an angel. I love you more than who I was created to be.

He would give up his wings and heaven for her, a woman he loved but would never truly belong to him, a woman he could never keep. He’d fall and be banished from the only home he’d ever known, but he could never give her up. He’d keep her, enjoy her and love her as long as he could.

And the more he gazed at her, the more he felt a twinge of something he couldn’t quite describe, an unknown surge that bubbled inside him from the first moment he’d caught sight of her, and it wouldn’t release him.

I can’t let it happen. I can’t risk it. I have to protect you, and I will. With every breath in me, I will.