“I’m in love with you, Leo.” I see his face flare with surprise, and I see his eyes explode with color and longing. Still, he only smiles at me softly and tightens his hold on my thigh. “I’ve always been in love with you. I never fell out of it, never stopped. Not for one moment.” I feel my chest tightening as my heart pounds against it, begging to be set free. “Being with you again…it feels like my heart hasn’t been beating, not since the moment I walked away from you. And now, I feel like it’s bleeding out for you, flooding through me stronger and harder than I ever could’ve imagined at
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