Chapter 46

Tanya's POV

Love? Did he just say love? No, I must have misheard him.

"Tanya, I said I love you," he repeated.

I frowned as my vision became blurred with unshed tears.

"If you are lying to me or...."

"Stop that," he whispered, cutting me off.

I wasn't strong enough to take such a joke. If he wasn't serious about his words, he was going to hurt me badly.

"I love you, I really do," he said, then smiled.

I sniffed and covered my face with my hands as tears rolled down my cheeks.

I dropped my hands when he wrapped his arms around me.

"I know how hard it is to believe my words, but the truth is that I am seriously in love with you. Teresa was an important part of my life, but when I met you, I felt it from the bottom of my heart that you were who I wanted a future with," he said softly.

I pulled back and looked at him seriously.

"Yet you will still marry her," I pointed out huskily.

"Do you not understand what I mean when I say I love you?" he asked.

I understood what it meant, but that w