“I don’t want you. I need you. I’ve always needed you. Whole, mangled, torn into pieces, I will take you however you are. You are the only thing in my life that’s ever been worth something. The only person I felt like I might not be able to live without. And every moment we were apart was not spent living, Gavin. Just surviving. The fact that I get a second chance with that boy—who is now a man that I care deeply about and want to see succeed more than I’ve wanted anything in my life—the fact that I get that, after thinking I’d never have you again, is almost surreal. I keep asking myself if
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