She was crying and hadn't even realized it. "How could I hate you?" she whispered. "I love you. I don't want anything to happen to you." Her fingers smoothed over his chest and she felt like she wanted to crawl into him, for the two of them to disappear, for none of this to be happening.
"We could run away," she said. "Just us. Go, somewhere, never come back. Peru. Australia. I don't care as long as you're alright."