Had he been even a little less out of it, Will would have well and truly panicked over the way she was sobbing. As it was, he was struggling to figure out what could be wrong. The Healers hadn't said that he was dying or anything but would they have told him in the first place?
But then she'd looked at him with those beautiful red eyes and declared that she loved him. It made his heart stop in his chest. They had both spent years telling everyone who'd listen that they weren't in love. Hell, he'd been telling himself that he wasn't in love with Audrey almost from the time he'd hit puberty. To hear her say those words pulled the last few supporting stones out from under his wall of denial.
Vaguely aware that he'd been staring at her with confusion wrinkling his brow for far too long, he pulled her down to him for a lingering, if sloppy, kiss. "Love you, too, Auds," he murmured, "Always have. Always will."