"I love you…"
Had they said that to each other before? If yes, Arabella could not, for the life of her, remember it happening.
Silas' diamonds glowed with a new kind of gleam as they bore into her gemstones. Admiring their bling was as though the right to dream was being granted to her for the first time.
"I have not ever said that before,"
And there, he cleared that mystery out for her. She breathed an internal sigh of relief to know it hadn't slipped her mind or something of that sort.
"I believe… The only people I have ever said those words to were my mother and then…," she trailed off, a distant look in her eyes, "My brother. It was on the night before he deserted the family abode. It was the first and last time we ever exchanged those words," her demeanor shifted to a slightly lighter one, "I did think it was odd that Arthur would all of the sudden blurt such a thing when he'd never done so before," an itsy-bitsy scoff escaped her.
