Page 76 of Collision of Winters

I cupped his face in my hands, and I kissed him harder.

“For me too,” I murmured. I rested my forehead to his. “I was going to tell you tonight, but now I…” I let out a breath and smiled. “I want you to begin your training today, knowing that I love you with all my heart.”

His eyes widened. He hadn’t seen that confession coming. “Holy crap. Really?”

I nodded and kissed his forehead. “More than I can describe.”

He blew out an unsteady breath and smiled. Fuck me if his cheeks didn’t look a little redder.

Gorgeous.

He swallowed hard and fiddled with my top button. “I’ve sort of sensed you getting closer to saying it, especially when we go to bed together.”

I wasn’t surprised. I couldn’t get enough of him. He breathed life into me.

Next, he reached up and kissed me chastely, and he grinned. “I, of course, love you ten times more.”

Christ, I was whipped. Merely hearing him say that made me want to give him the world. Aside from the part where he was utterly wrong.

“Impossible,” I replied. “I think I know best. Daddies always know best.”

His lips parted, and the brattiness ignited in his eyes. I had a second or two to act before we’d both discover how voices carried and echoed in this lobby. So I promptly slapped a hand over his mouth and cocked a brow.

“Don’t you dare, little one.” I gripped his jaw next and smooched his pouty lips. “We can fight it out at home later—see who loves the other one the most—but right now, you’re gonna be a good boy and report to Operator Payne.”

He smashed his lips together, challenge, affection, and determination swimming in his eyes.

“Yes, Sir,” he whispered. “But tonight when we get home, it’son.”

“It’ssoon,” I whispered back.