“You’re amazing, you are perfect, and I feel a strong attachment to you that is unfamiliar and unsettling. I feel like you’re family and it’s again all new to me. Be grateful that it is not romantic—be grateful that all I want from you is your friendship and your trust.” “Grateful?” I asked, my cheeks warming at the kindness of his words. It was not crazy though; I felt the same from the first day and I was glad to have a friend now. I’d been so alone for too long. He nodded. “Yep, otherwise Luca would have killed me.”
