“No. That wasn’t a coincidence. I kept things from you. Things I didn’t think I could tell you yet. And my fear was that I’d lose you if you knew before …” He paused and took a deep breath. “Before I could get you to fall in love with me. I thought you’d leave. I doubt I will ever forgive myself for that. If you’d known then, this wouldn’t have happened.” I was listening to him, but the words fall in love with me were the ones that kept replaying in my head. We hadn’t talked about love. There hadn’t been enough time for that, had there? “You want me to love you?” I asked him. “If you love me,
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