I will always love you

Mia braced herself for another heartbreak that was about to hit her in Neil's message about her stupidity for loving him when he only desired her sexually, but when she tapped onto the message and began to read, the tenderness and joy that exploded in her heart healed all her wounds for the past month. The world fell away and all that existed for her was the unbelievable words she was reading and the man who had typed them to her without ever intending for her to read them...

[My darling Mia, I know you'll never see this message, but it helps me to type them down for you every day. It keeps you close to me. Damn, I miss you so much. You haunt every hour of my life. I wish I'd never met you as a child. No—I don't mean that! What good would my life be without my memories of you in my teen to make me smile.]

She read that part and paused, he'd met her as a child? She wondered cluelessly but then she resumed to read on to see what was written ahead.