think twice before booking that flight to Kansas when I got your letter. Not just because you needed me or because the thought of you being married to someone else makes me sick, but because I knew seeing you again would lead to possibility, and that was worth the fear of losing you again.” He inhales a shaky breath. “But I can’t wake up one morning and just find you gone. I can’t watch you disappear into thin air, into nothing. I can’t spend another decade wondering if I’d made everything up in my head. I can’t let myself believe that I have you, only to end up in a reality where I don’t.”
