“You still make me happy, Lucien. You are still everything I want and a lot of things I couldn’t have imagined wanting—” “Thanks.” “In a good way. We don’t have to do this. We can move at whatever pace you like. But you should know that I am yours, more truly than I have ever been anyone’s. Because when I’m with you, I’m me. Not someone I think I should be. And I’ll be with you, however you want, for as long as you’ll have me.”
