Part 2, Chapter 9, Citizen:
Hate me Liara. Please, hate me. I've wronged you and Samara terribly. I don't deserve either of you. I'm worthless. I'm a terrible person. Hate me and cast me out, I don't want to go on.
Liara kissed her. No! I don't deserve this. Liara kissed her again. She gently caressed her face, looked at Shepard with loving eyes, and kissed her a third time. Shepard began to cry. Liara stood, pivoted, and straddled her beloved. She never let go of Shepard's face. Liara began kissing the tears as they ran down Victoria's cheeks.
Soon Shepard realized that Liara too was crying. No my love, please don't cry, Shepard thought. She too began to kiss the tears as they formed on her robin's egg blue cheeks. She tasted the salt in her mouth, it was bitter.
Liara's legs tightened their grip upon Shepard's torso. Victoria placed her strong hands under Liara's hips, pulled her in tightly, and stood. She carried her beloved down the veranda's steps out into a clearing in the gardens. Victoria gently placed her on the ground. Liara was already unbuttoning her shirt. The cool air rose gooseflesh on her breasts, Liara warmed them each with a tender kiss. Her wife's warm lips felt good, comforting, on her skin. In the face of death, thought Victoria, an affirmation of life.
Victoria Shepard and Liara T'soni made love and joined for the last time surrounded by the beautiful flowers of the Lady Benezia's gardens. A faint drizzle was beginning to fall.
In the end, as they climaxed together, Victoria Shepard broke a promise she had made to her wife on their wedding night. She withheld something from her mate during the bond. She did it so successfully that Liara didn't even know she was deceived.
Victoria recalled the rest of that quote from a film over 200 years old. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
The next morning before Liara or Samara awoke; Shepard caught a lighter to Earth. She left a note for Liara saying that she was going to discuss the New Orleans incident with Ashley Williams, to see if the Spectre could help in sorting out what happened. She would be back in a day or so.