Riley
I was scared. Heck, I still am, but when a man says I love you with a whole lot of sincerity it just hits you in a different way. It hits you hard enough to break down every wall you've put up brick by brick in one go and that's exactly what Jaxon did to me. The way his eyes begged for me to understand how he felt and how he looked straight into my soul felt like a defibrillator was being used on me to jump-start my heart to life. Those three words. It only took those three words to make all questions, all fears, all things that made me want to leave disappear just like that. Other men could say I love you to any woman, but how he said it dug straight to my core. At that moment I caught myself thinking, to hell with everyone else who thought and still thinks he and I can never be to
