"You could never be boring," Alex said sincerely, his fingers halting. "You are sunlight to me. And I love you always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides." It was corny and exactly what Emma pretended she hated, but he knew better when it came to her. As confident of a person as Emma was, she needed reminding. "But you already knew all that."
His heart rate accelerated just so under her hand and he knew that she felt it but he wasn't particularly bothered by it. "Probably not. I'm going to just die here from a wounded ego."