“I tried dating other people, and it felt so insincere, like I didn’t really mean it. And I didn’t. Because I am, as ever, completely, utterly, irrevocably in love with you,” Nick said, and as he quoted himself from Windsor, the tips of his ears began to vibrate, that old embarrassed tic I hadn’t seen since Oxford. “I don’t even know if you want to hear all this, and I’m certain this is the worst possible time for me to be telling you. But I learnt from you that sometimes just blurting things out leads to the best outcome.”
