Chapter 61: Yearning of souls
ARIEL'S POV
My heart jumped so high I feared it would get stuck in my throat.
In all the things I ever expected to hear, those three magical words didn’t make the top one thousand.
How could they, when the man who was even my mate had never once uttered them to me?
I blinked, then blinked again.
It was real. Viktor was still staring at me with those eyes that told me he meant every word.
I opened my mouth but nothing came out. I closed it again, my heart so full that I felt the weight.
Viktor looked down, and I feared he mistook my silence.
“I’m… I’m sorry,” he murmured, regret softening his voice. “I don’t know what I was thinking.”
I frowned, a strange pang tugging at me. “You didn’t mean to say that, did you?” Maybe it had just slipped out in the
