Can't say it

Beatrix’s POV

I gasped for more air, “I have something to tell you, can you stay with me longer?” I feel my cheeks hot, I still wonder if I can actually say those words. Since my childhood, I have never once told that to anyone, not even to my mother before she died.

Rayton looked at me with confusion on his face, maybe he was really confused about what I’d been doing since earlier. He knelt in front of me and touched both of my cheeks, his eyes were more strange emotions that I couldn't understand.

His gaze seemed to reach to the core of my being, I wanted to avert my eyes but he was like a magnet that forced me to keep looking at him. I'm drowning like I'm short of breath.

“If you want me to stay by your side, I will do it, even if we spend the day or night together as long as you want, I will do it. But tell me, what do you really feel? Did something hurt you or did something bad happen? Tell me, Beatrix, because I'm worried about your behavior.” The tone of his voice was so sweet,