But if I was honest, I suspected she was right. He was planning to give it all up for me. I couldn’t let him do that. I could see it now, playing out so clearly. He would give it up for the love of me—his dreams, this golden opportunity, the life he’d been planning since he was twelve years old. He’d do it because the alternative was unthinkable. He was loving and loyal. He’d never choose his own interests over me.