Chapter 30

Robert looked up. “Of what?”

“That you will leave me, find someone healthy, someone who you can ride with, run with…someone who isn’t a miserable bastard. I think I pushed you away before you could leave me. I thought it might hurt less. It didn’t.” He swallowed. “I love you. I love you.”

Robert stared at him, water dripping from his chin. “You love me?” He sounded so uncertain.

“I love you so much, but I have no idea how to love someone. I have no idea how…how to be happy.”

Robert blinked and smiled tentatively at first and then those blue eyes lit up like the summer sun, warming Milo down to his toes. Robert moved so he could insert himself between Milo’s legs, knelt, and put his head in his lap. He wrapped his arms around his waist. “I love you,” Robert said. I want to spend the rest of my life with you. This isn’t a passing thing for me. I wish I could marry you.” Milo felt him swallow.