“I need you, Madds. I’ll keep learning, keep trying, keep accepting that you love me and aren’t going to leave me, but I might slip up at times. I might spook. And when I do, just know it’s only because I love you so much it hurts. I want you to sow the rest of your oats with me. As a team. Fighting for one another. Fighting against the world—just the two of us. I never stopped loving you. I simply believed you couldn’t possibly love me . . . and that was wrong of me. I just hope—”
