"Engel?" Herbert feels his eyes welling up again and he buries his face in Alfred's chest, wrapping his arms around Alfred's waist and holding him tight. "Oh, mon chéri, no one has ever called me such things. Every moment I'm with you, I adore you more and more. I can't think of an eternity without you by my side, now that you're here with me."

He'd thought he'd been in love before, but it's never been like this. This deep, this passionate and adoring and no one has ever made his heart feel so full.