You had your chance to run, coyote. It’s too late now.

“One more month,” he said finally. “And then they—and Samuel, too—will just have to get used to it. His eye is the color of a bitch with dark chocolate, worst few years and he leaned forward. “And you will marry me.”
I smiled, showing my teeth. “Don’t you mean, ‘will you marry me?’”
I meant it to be funny, but his eyes brightened until the gold flecks were swimming in the darkness. “You had your chance to run, coyote. It’s too late now.”

― Patricia Briggs, Silver Borne