Jonas speared his food hard enough for the fork to make a clinking noise against the plate. "I wouldn't leave if you were still here." How could he? Just leave her behind and wonder where she was, what she was up to? He couldn't do that. Not without going mad.
"I care if you're happy Daryn! Why would I be here if I didn't? Why would I keep watching?" He took a sharp breath, looking away from her. "I want to be with you. However you want. But I'm not going to not care about you just because you say so." He was too invested in her to take it so casually. To think of it as nothing, but at the same time if that was all he got, he'd take it.