As he continued, his fingertips delicately touched my cheekbones.

"You ask how I realized I was in love with you?"

I nodded.

"In truth, I didn't fully understand it until much later. I knew before you had arrived that I wanted you in my life. I knew when you got here I couldn't let you slip away."

"And that was why you made that contract? So that I wouldn't leave?"

He gave me a deep kiss. " When I realized you were the one for me, I didn't want to squander even another second of my life. I ...