"Will..." His name sounded loud in her ears in the wake of his statement. The weight of what he'd said should be crushing, should be impossible for her to bear after such a short time, but it wasn't. That in and of itself should have worried her, instead it just made her feel lighter.

She pressed closer to him and nodded. "I want that too. And it goes both ways." She said, looking in the eye as he watched her. "I've never wanted to let anyone close before. Not as close as I want you to get." She smiled at him. "You made a hole in my walls the first second you looked me in the eye, you know that? No one's ever done that. You're inside my defences and I don't know how you did it. I'm glad that you are though."