The breath she didn't know she had been holding puffed from her lips and Rose let her eyes fall shut for a moment, as if somehow that would make things better, that much easier. It wouldn't, but she could try.

"I know how you wanted it to be," she said quietly. "For me. That you wanted me to have a normal life. And that's something you couldn't give me, for all of the reasons we talked about. But that doesn't mean I've ever stopped.."

..loving you.