Something in him simultaneously coiled tight and loosened at hearing the words from her lips. A small part of him hadn't been sure she would feel the same way, but the larger part of him had been swimming in confidence. She loved him!
He let himself bask in the moment, shimmying himself under her so that he slipped a littler further down the couch so that he could catch her lips in a sweet kiss that, though it wasn't entirely light, wasn't necessarily pushing for more in that moment.
When he'd pulled back from the kiss, looking into her eyes, he found himself asking quite the random question. "Do you have a middle name?" It was pure curiosity, and he was surprised he didn't know yet. If she was going to be his person, he wanted to know everything about her, her hopes and dreams, her wants and desires.