if i miss one more dinner with her aunt and uncle , who knows what she might do . he wanted her to fall apart on him over and over again , to keep coming against his lips , to burst free and twinkle back down to earth for the rest of their natural lives . `` why ca n't they mind their own freaking business ? but the evidence denied this claim . and , gods help me , she might be ... mine . `` they seem to need to be close to their master . '' 