Chapter 118

Damon

She said it.

After everything that I pushed her through, she said it.

She said the words I hadn’t been able to say.

And I didn’t say them back.

Even now, lying in bed, her warm body curled up against mine, her head resting on my chest as she slept peacefully, I couldn’t stop hearing her voice echoing in my head.

I love you.

It was soft, barely a whisper when she said it. But it struck like thunder.

And I just… froze.

I didn’t pull away. I didn’t push her out of my arms. I didn’t pull out of her. Hell, I made love to her like she was the only thing in this world that made sense.

Because she was.

And that was the terrifying part.

She was the one person that had managed to crack walls that I did not expect to be broken again. She was the one person who did it before and once have built once I found myself living a life that I knew would be fitting for an alpha, she once again managed to break them.