“Say it again,” he growled. I softened, relief making me dizzy. Such simple words, and yet…they’d meant everything to me. I held his eyes. I reached up to touch his lips, feeling them part between my fingertips. “I love you,” I said quietly as the moon winds howled outside the hallway. “I’ve loved you since I first saw you the day I came to work in your keep. I thought that it was an innocent love. But now I think a part of my soul recognized you as mine that day, and it’s been captured by you ever since.”
