“I thought I could walk away from you. God, what a fucking idiot.” He shakes his head, wonder flicking across his handsome face. “I knew it when you opened your eyes on the floor outside the hospital and you looked at me for the first time. It was like part of me snapped. I thought you’d broken something inside of me. I hated you for it. And then I realized that you hadn’t broken anything. You’d—you’d fixed it.”
