Patrick’s POVHow wonderful was this feeling that Lexie awakened in me! And it was marvelous to stop swimming against the current, to accept that I loved her and be able to tell her so. I had never experienced anything like this before, no feeling so strong, so definitive, that nothing could change. And she had made it clear long ago what she felt for me - I was loved back with the same intensity, and she had never been afraid to say she loved me.Love! Now I said I loved her with such certainty, because I knew these weren't words spoken carelessly or in the heat of emotion, not even at the peak of a fleeting, passing infatuation. It was love, the kind that comes, arrives without warning, terrifies you with its magnitude, but never leaves again.I pulled Lexie back into the room and only stepped away from her briefly, just to close the door and curtains. Then I led her to the armchair and sat there with her."For you!" I pulled the gift box closer to her. "Actually, it's for us!""And
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