"Why were you so nervous to tell me this? Did you really think I would give you up because you couldn't say you were sorry?" he asked her, running his hand up and down her back, comforting her, he hoped.
"I wouldn't give up something so precious.. ever, Kitty," he told her, smiling at her as his fingers played with her hair. "It took how many years for me to get you back? To have you? For me to be the only man with you? I wouldn't give that up, Kitty Kat, I wouldn't," he told her, smiling bigger.