"I shouldn't have said that I love you."

"Yes, you should have. That is exactly why I said it. Because if you hadn't said it then, I probably wouldn't have. At least now I'm prepared for it."

"For what?"

"For your rejection. For you to leave me alone. For you to stop pretending that you care about me. If I don't hear it from your lips, I will eventually lose faith. I might even give up on our relationship altogether."

"Never. I won't do that. We can work things out, we can fix this. There must be another solution. I don't know what you did to my father but I...