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He would never say the words out loud.
There were never grandiose declarations of love, no loud proclamations or obvious signs of his affection to those around him.
His love was intense, passionate, private.
His love was in the way he looked at you when he thought you weren’t looking; How his eyes glowed with the emotion he felt deep in his heart where no one could touch it. You could see it in the crinkle at the corners of his eyes when you pulled a rare smile from him that softened all of his facial features.
His love was in the small gifts that he would place in your bag that you left in the office, in the little desserts he would leave next to you while you were paying attention to something else, acting like a secret admirer who was vying for your attentions. He knew that he was so much more to you, and he knew you told him often, but this was his way of showing you how he cared. Showing you his love.
His love was the affection and devotion proclaimed in the way he kissed you - changing how he pressed his lips against yours, licking and nibbling, taking sips before devouring you like a hungry beast.
His love was in his whispered words in the dark of night or away from prying eyes. The ‘I love you’’s before you closed your eyes at night, or in the midst of shared passions. The sweet nothings for your ears only in the privacy you can only find while cuddling beneath blankets at his apartment or yours.
His love was in the press of his long fingers into your flesh, in the way you both melded together in your most intimate moments. Slow and sensual, hard and fast, always making you both gasp and clutch each other closer as if to keep the other from leaving, knowing you couldn’t be with out the other.
His love was protecting you from everything with all the power he had in him. Protecting you when someone tried to attack you for the umpteenth time since coming to Starless. It was standing up for you when others wouldn’t. It was being there when you needed him most, a shoulder to cry on, some one to pick you up when you fell down.
You may be more vocal about your affections towards him in public, sometimes bringing a lovely flush to his strong features, but his feelings towards you shouted louder than any other sound you had ever heard.