He brought her hands to his lips. “You love me. I see it, and I feel it, and I know it. You haven’t given me the words, Breen Siobhan.” “I—” “Because you want them first. Need them first, and that’s fair enough. I want no one but you. I think I never could, not through my heart, because I always knew you’d come. I love all you are, and that was a hard road for me to travel, as I knew it might come to what it did today, and I wouldn’t be there to catch you. I wouldn’t be meant to, do you see?”
