“I don’t...” His brows pinched together, nostrils flaring. “I don’t want you to come back.” “You—" “I’m taking you off the visitor’s list.” He might as well have thrust his hand into my chest and pulled out my heart because this felt so final, and I knew it was. I fought tears as I pushed to my feet, knowing there was nothing I could say. He looked out the window, his jaw slowly ticcing. “I’ll never love anybody the way I love you, Roe. That I promise.” “I love you.”
