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“You love me?” she whispered

“It will be the death of hed wearily, exhausted simply by the prospect of it all “I can’t seem to help myself”

“Oh” Her lips quivered, then wobbled, and then so “Good”

“Good?” he echoed “That’s all you have to say?”

She stepped forward, touched his cheek “I love you, too With all —”

He’d never knohat she’d been about to say It was lost beneath his kiss

“Gareth,” she gasped, during the bare moment when he paused for breath

“Not now,” he said, his ain He couldn’t stop He’d told her, and now he had to show her

He loved her It was as simple as that

“But Gareth—”

“Shhh…” He held her head in his hands, and he kissed her and kissed her…until heto her throat

“Gareth, I have to tell you—”

“Not now,” he s in mind

“But it’s very important, and—”

He dragged hirunted “What is it?”