“I see you still don’t get it. I’m going to tell it to you straight, Harper, so don’t freak out.” Her eyes go wide with nerves, but I continue on. “I would have waited forever. If it meant we’d get here, in my bed, together with no pretense, I would have waited an eternity for you to be ready. I didn’t want to rush things, for you to sit there in a few months or in a year, wondering if you made the right choice. I needed you to know you were making this decision because you wanted to. Because you wanted not just me, but us. I didn’t want there to be even the smallest chance you’d look at last
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