“Um. Uh, thanks for the offer. But yeah, I want her.” He pauses. “I’m in love with her.” My heart soars like a kite in the wind. He’s in love with me? Then it sinks like a stone. Wait. What if he’s only saying it because I said I loved him? “I’ve been in love with her for a few months now,” he continues, and his husky confession reinflates my heart. “I didn’t tell her because I didn’t want to scare her off by saying it too soon.”
