Deadly Testimony (Safeguard #2)(79)

Kyle opened his arms in invitation and she stepped into him without hesitation.

“You keep surprising me,” she whispered. “Not just with what you do, but the way you get me to react. I’m all sorts of things I forgot I liked being when I’m with you.”

“I love you.” He made the statement simple, his voice almost cracking with the emotion behind it, then pressed a kiss against her hair. “I love everything about you. I’m looking forward to discovering more.”

She swallowed hard. “You’re a complicated man, Kyle Yeun.”

“Yes.” And she saw through all of his posturing to the person he’d evolved into over the past few months and who he could be.

Even better, he looked at her and saw her too.

“I love you too.” Her mouth had gone dry but she’d gotten better at saying what she felt, out loud, to him. “I might not say it often or even admit it again anytime soon. But I do. So I’ll say it now because I have no idea what’s going to happen tomorrow or even later tonight and you have a tendency to have explosives go off near you.”

“Let’s survive to tomorrow together, then.” He bent his head and kissed her.