Page 216 of Torrid Passion
“That’s good. You know why?”
“No.”
I lean in closer, my lips inches away from hers. “Because I can’t live another fucking day without you.”
“Your words—”
“They come from the heart.”
She lets out a sob.
I kiss her tears away.
“Speaking of my heart… it belongs to you, gorgeous.” I pause. “I love you, Kyla.”
She lets out this little mewl.
She’s just staring at me in disbelief.
She’s stunned.
“I must be dreaming,” she says in a little voice “You what?”
“I love you, Kyla,” I repeat.
“You do?”
“With all my heart.”
“I love you, too, Loki… I never thought—”
“It was the same for me?”
“Yes.”
“It is, gorgeous,” I smile.
She opens her mouth to say something, but changes her mind.
“What?” I press.
“Hayden confronted me about my feelings for you when I got back to Venice.”
“And?”
“She knew. She’s perceptive like that. I denied it. I already knew I had fallen in love with you, but I was too petrified to admit it. I’ve had a thing for you for so long and I feared even though my feelings for you had deepened, it was one-sided.”
Silently, I take hold of her hand and kiss her fingers one by one.
I meet her expecting gaze. “This is just a hunch and I might be wrong, but is that why you were crying earlier after I kissed you when you first arrived?”
She averts her gaze. “Yes,” she says. “I’ve been overwhelmed by my feelings for you since our last few weeks on Balboa Island. I just didn’t want to screw up a good thing.”
“You understand that I love you?” I don’t want her to have any doubts about us.
Her dazed and vulnerable expression is so endearing.
“Do bad boys commit?” she hesitates.
