"But in Mantua or Mexico I wouldn't have you," Romeo claimed. A year before, or even six months before, he might have threatened suicide to make his point here, but death was too serious to him now to let him do that.

He raised his hands in surrender. "We aren't talking about it now," he agreed. "But know that when the day comes for you to portal back here for good, if I am not with you it won't be because I didn't try."