"When I was with Enzo tonight, he asked if I'd told you I love you. I said no. He asked why." Dimitri's thumb brushed across her knuckles. "I didn't have a good answer. Because the truth is, I've been in love with you since you were eighteen years old and kissed my cheek like it was nothing. I've been in love with you through seven years of staying away, of keeping my promise to Mike, of watching you marry someone else and pretending it didn't kill me."
Eve's eyes filled with tears.
"I've been in love with you since that night at Sinners when you climbed into my lap and asked me to touch you. I've been in love with you through every denial, every punishment, every moment of watching you transform from a broken woman into a fucking queen." His voice roughened. "And I'm going to be in love with you for the rest of my life, Eve Thorne. Whether you stay with me or walk away. Whether we get our forever or the world burns down around us. You own me, completely and absolutely."
