CH.176

"I love you, Knox!" Serena confessed. Her eyes shun with the depth of her feelings. "With every fiber of my being. You are my heart, my soul, my everything. I don't care what darkness lies within you or what risks I'll face by being your mate. I want to face it all by your side, for eternity."

Knox felt his throat grow tight as Serena's emotional declaration washed over him in waves.

He had lived more than a lifetime and had experienced nearly every torment this world had to offer across the centuries. Yet nothing had ever touched him as profoundly as this slip of a woman's love.

Just hearing those three words tumble from her lips made his heart feel fit to burst with unfamiliar sensations.

A strange tightness gripped his chest, but it wasn't painful. It was as though a great weight he'd carried for ages had finally been lifted by her sweet confession. As though he could breathe fully for the first time, inhaling the intoxicating essence of her love like the sweetest ambrosia.

Knox'