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My heart raced the second the words left my lips. ‘I love you, River Lane.’ It sounded sudden and random, like it had just slipped out, but the truth was I couldn’t hold it in anymore. I had carried it too long and swallowed it down too many times. Tonight, after everything we had been through, I couldn’t keep it to myself.
I watched his eyes, afraid of what I might find there, but what I saw made my chest flutter. They were overflowing with emotions that seemed to mirror mine.
My lips parted, though I didn’t even know what I was about to say. But I never got the chance anyway. River closed the space between us before I could speak.
A shiver tore through me at the feeling of his lips against mine, and his arms wrapped around my waist, pulling me tight against him, while my arms
