Had Devon offered her false platitudes that he would never leave her, or issued ardent promises that they would never be torn apart even by death, Krystal would never have realized to what extent she had lived a pretense all her life.
Telling her that he wasn’t capable of guaranteeing her forever because there were things beyond his control revealed that he would never use banalities to convince her of anything. Not even his feelings. Devon Mahoney was the real deal, one who would prefer using actions to ascertain his feelings instead of flowery words.
Inexorably, that gave her the reassurance no words would ever have. And then she knew what her heart had known all along.
She loved him.
While the realization would have terrified her only one day ago catching her by storm, the knowledg
