Stone Circle Now I am as devoted to you as I can be without crossing the line

There was a moment of silence between them, his ears folding back with uncertainty. Would she demand that he leave? Anticipation bore anxiety and he opened his mouth to say something, then promptly shut it when she posed a question of her own—something he was asked before, something he was previously unable to bring himself to answer. But that former inability was the result of the wrong person asking him and now… now it was the right one—

—“For you,” he breathed, nervous. “I’m here for you. To—to fix what I fucked up.” That was all he wanted, all he could think about when he was alone in the wilderness.