His eyes filled again as he heard her confess more than love and adoration and worship, everything anyone could feel with the whole of their hearts and minds and souls.
She surged to kiss his eyes, tasting his precious tears, which she swore she’d never cause again.
Withdrawing, she voiced her last lingering fear. “I’m just so scared....”
He wouldn’t let her continue, enveloping her again. “That I don’t know what I’m talking about? That I’d change my mind? If ten years don’t prove to you that I was made to love you, that you are the one thing I need to be happy, I demand another test to prove that to you. The next fifty years.”
And she surrendered. To his overwhelming love, to the unimaginable happiness of an inseparable life together...come what may. “If I have those, they’re all yours. As I am. Always have been. Always will be.”