“Gavin.” This time her voice cracks, and I see the worry in her eyes she’s always trying to hide.

“I wanted to know everything I could about you. That’s why I had someone look into your past. Maybe it was too much, but I’m not sorry. Finding out what you’d done?” I shrug. “That just sealed the deal for me.”

“Why?”

“Because I knew that there wasn’t anything you could have done that would make me stop loving you.”

“You don’t mean that.” She looks in my ...