"That you still want to be with me even after you learned that you might lose me someday." I tell him.

"Of course I do." Ezra says seriously.

"But still, you said that you wanted to protect me from everyone. But now, I keeps wondering if you weren't protecting me from all of this." I say, gesturing to my body.

"Of course I wasn't." Ezra tells me firmly.

"Really?" I question him skeptically.

"Really. I know what it feels like to hurt and what it feels like to lose someone and it scares me almost as much as it terrifies me." Ezra reveals.

I nod slightly in response.

"Now that...