“That is me,” he replied, his voice sharp. “This is me. And if I didn’t love you I wouldn’t have fucking stopped when I promised I would, would I? I wouldn’t have waited for weeks—“

He cut off, angrily, clicking his tongue.

“I love you more than any one else in the galaxy possibly could. And I’d fight every last one of them to get to you. I didn’t want it to be like this.”