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“Find the Cross behind the Cruz. He’s the good man. He’s the one he hides from the world. When you see him, you’ll know the man I love.”
They say love conquers all, but it’s a hard fucking hill to climb when you’re battling the giant who’s guarded it your whole life.
“You’re letting her win. You’re letting him win. Pretty ironic for a man who has spent his own life chasing each and every victory.”
“And yet you don’t choose to chase me.”
“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—
I want to be your bookends. The person you leave in the morning and come home to at night. The person who takes care of you but allows you to be you.
I want you to fit me in your life. I want you to let me be a part of yours. I want you to let me love you.”
Won my good luck charm back. Now all is right with the world. LOVE this woman with all my heart. #CrossHart
“Marry me, Madds. Because you want to sow your oats with me. Because you want to be my bookend. Because you want to navigate this crazy life we have together. Because you want to be the sunrise to my sunset. The finish to my start. The calm to my storm. Marry me, because I’m so madly in love with you that there is no one else I’d rather come home to. To make a home with. To make a life with.”
That I get to love something—someone—unconditionally and share something with Maddix that no one can ever take away from us.
“I thought I couldn’t love you more. I was wrong. You keep proving that to me time and time again. Maddix Navarro—you are everything I never knew I needed and everything I wanted.”
They’ve shown me that love is about selfless sacrifice. It’s not foolproof, but it is worth the effort. It’s worth the risk of being vulnerable, of putting yourself out there, because the reward . . . the reward is so fucking worth it.
