And Annelise seemed to know more of love than hedid.
Rolfe decided that marriage might be a reasonable place to start a search for love, whatever it was. His mother had professed love for his father, as he recalled, although Rolfe had always assumed she meant the act that begot children. Looking back, he saw that he might have beenwrong.
Perhaps Rolfe could convince Annelise to lovehim.
And why not? She laughed at his jests. She welcomed his touch and took his side. In fact, they were wed, andshehad been the one to insist that love belonged inmarriage.
The sun rose as Rolfe began to form a newplan.
He had found something that his wife would be glad to see. Due to the curse, he could only show it to her in the daylight, when he could leave thepalace.
It was perhaps time she encountered him as a wolfagain.
She had, after all, wanted to see histruth.
