Chapter Ten
I’d been thinking the same three words, but I wasn’t sure whether to say such a thing aloud. Not so soon, not when we’d only known each other for such a short amount of time. But Raphael had been brave enough to say it, and I wasn’t about to hurt him by letting my own fear and my own limitations get in the way. I knew my heart, even if my brain might be telling me that this was all crazy.
“I love you, too,” I whispered.
He ran a hand over my tumbled hair, then slid the backs of his fingers against the side of my cheek. I breathed out, softly, thrilled by even that small, tender touch, so different from the tumult of the lovemaking we’d just shared.
A silence fell, but a good one. We both seemed content in that moment to lie next to one another, to let the delicious afterglo
