It wasn’t the declaration she’d been agonizing over for months. Maybe this was how it would always be between them, or maybe one day, they would be something different to each other. She didn’t know how the rest of their story would unfold, but just then, it didn’t matter. That they loved each other wasn’t a secret spilling out, or a scandal getting ready to ignite. It was simply the unchanging truth they’d both always known, finally spoken out loud.
