“I can’t erase your fear, Emery, but I need you to know that you did this to me,” he said, taking my hands into his and laying them against his chest. “You found me when my heartbeats were hardly there, and you stamped them. You stamped my heart, and that’s why it’s still beating.” The way my body filled with love was almost overpowering. “Oliver . . .” “Ask me to be yours, and I’ll be yours. If you let me stay, I’ll stay forever.”
