Lor’s breath hitched. “You mean more to me than anything else. I would do anything for you, Jugs.” Lifting our joined hands, he pressed my fingertips to his mouth—to the ring piercing his lower lip. “This means that I will never want anyone else. My mouth will never touch another. I will never speak ill of you. Your name is the first thing I want to pass my lips every morning and the last thing I say every night.” I swallowed thickly, gently touching the tiny blue gem on the ring. “You… you got this done even though you didn’t know if I would ever get better?” “If you’d never gotten better, I
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