Toby mumbled 'I love you' softly into Chris' lips before returning the kiss, letting his hand tangle in the man's longer hair as he pressed up into the contact.
It was a sense of... belonging. Approval, almost, on Toby's part. He had done what no one else had managed to do. He'd gotten Chris to let himself love him, and he was going to hold onto that, do whatever he could to keep it.