“Mhmm…”
“Why?”
“Because… because…” she murmurs, twisting her face into my chest. “I love you.”
I’m expecting it, I saw it coming from a mile away, and still, it floors me. By the time I recover from the revelation and look down at her, she’s deep asleep and breathing as easily as I’ve ever heard from her. Like she finally lifted an impossible weight off her shoulders.
I unravel her hands from my body and slip out from underneath her just in time to see the door open slightly.
It’s one of my guys.
“Don Stepanov,” he whispers. “Your brother and Lev have just arrived.”