"Maybe it won't, but we can still try." I shifted my head from his shoulder, looked into the gloriously emotional depths of his dark eyes, and whispered, "Please tell me you'll try."
He took a deep breath and released it slowly. "I've fought for a very long time to make you mine, Riley. It's not within me to give up now, no matter how impossible the odds."
The relief that rushed through me was so great that my knees felt like they were going to buckle.
He wasn't going to walk away.
He was going to remain in my life.
All I had to do now was hope fate let it stay that way.