From one moment to the other, her heart stopped. It jumped into ice cold water that had been brought to a boil. She stopped playing with his shirt and bluntly stared a him.
"I-" She blinked. There was a part of her that had expected it sooner or later. A part of her that was excited and a part that dreaded it - was she ready to say it back? But here she was still flabbergasted. "Rhys, I think I want that bond." It wasn't what she had wanted to say. But every second she hesitated made it more impossible to say. What if she did and what if she lost him...? It would be her fault. Everything that would happen to them all would be her fault. The responsibility was already overwhelming her. Throwing that l-word into the mix would drown her.