Aphrodite squeezes Luke's hand back. "I know you don't. I don't want that for you either," she says. She realizes, then, that she really does want him to have love in his other lives, with whoever it may be, even if part of her wants to be able to claim him in all of them. "I can't do anything about your other lives."

She shifts, scooting into his lap. "But I can make sure you have more love than you can stand in this one."