[ This, among other reasons, is why he loves you. Very much.

Laughing now, even as he bites his lower lip. ]

After a fashion.

[ With his mouth. Before they were interrupted.

A sober look crosses his face though. ] I'd never seen him so thrown. Or torn. It was like he was so convinced that... [ Shaking his head now. ] I get it though.

Things have been hard.