“Thank you.”
“I should also be thanking you.”
“What for?”
“For giving me a chance,” Dion answered. “I love you.”
The last three words were almost inaudible, and Galen wouldn’t have heard it if Dion’s lips weren’t right next to his ear. He stopped breathing for a second or two as he slowly broke away from Dion. The two of them stared at each other for what felt like forever. Galen could feel his heart pounding faster and harder inside him as he racked his brains for the right words to say. Many words were on the edge of his tongue, and it felt as if they were all competing for the chance to get out of his mouth first, but he managed to hold them back. There was one thing in his mind that he deemed more important than the others.
“You l-love me?”
Dion chuckled, but he also seemed really shy. “Yeah. I know it’s a little too fast because—”
“No!” Galen cut Dion off midsentence. “Not at all.”
“No?”