" Listen to me.” I said. “Not a day has gone by that I didn’t think of you and regret what I’d done. Not one fucking day.”
“Really?” her voice was shaky.
“Yes. I walked away because I was young and stupid and ashamed. Not because I didn’t love you. I did.” I hesitated, then thought fuck it “I still do.”
Her eyes widened. “What?”
“I never stopped loving you, Maren. I never even tried. "

― Melanie Harlow , Only Him (One and Only, #2)