Once you kissed him, his heart slowed, and every muscle in his body is relaxed. How much he needed you terrified him. He couldn’t imagine love was like this for everyone, or people would be walking around like lunatics the second they noticed others. Maybe it was just him. Maybe it was just him and you. Maybe together you were this volatile entity that would either implode or meld together. Either way, his life was turned upside down.

“You’re incredible,” he murmurs against your lips.