Chapter 16

'Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being 'in love', which any fool can do. Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent love protects you from age.'

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"I will love that mother." Lolly said after hearing her mother had promised to visit the Witch Queen.

"Trust me I will visit her, by the way, no one knows anything about you right?" Tamara asked.

"No one except us. Jason hasn't even asked me who my mo