To Elann, even though she desperately wanted to feel his love for her, his rejection was just as sweet. At least he would know now how desperate she was to be part of the bond with him.

He didn't reject her hold and instead tightened showing his desperation for her to not beg him any further. She was burdened in her heart for him, not as if a weight of pain was there, but one of love. He was showing sacrifice for her and though he had shown it before when he closed off the bond, now he was more acute in his plea. She listened further as he questioned her love in ways and seemed extremely curious. 

Lovingly she continued to brush up and down his arm, but stopped when she answered.

"I grew in my love for your mentality very close after our first meeting, when I saw you playing with the children and how they dressed you up. It was small, but the more time we spent together, the more it grew into a fondness and eventually a deep rooted love. I loved you in part then. When you were injured and I helped take care of you, I grew to be fond of you emotionally as if we had connected by sharing our troubles with each other, and since then, I grew to love you physically. I became more and more attracted to who you were, without the bond, and I still see it now...of course I do."

She didn't get mad at him for questioning her perception of his love, but she wanted to be clear to him she did perceive it.

"Everything you've done tonight has been in love for me...wanting to protect me and Aimee...how you are holding my arm right now...all of it. I just wanted to feel it through our bond because I love it, okay?"

It seemed like every time she opened her mouth, there was some sort of wrong thing she said, so she hoped that the truth of how she felt would not strike him as offensive.