"Listen to me," Saffron said as she took Xander's face in her hands, as if he had been doing anything but that very thing. "I love you. With all my heart, and soul. You're the only one for me, for - to have the sharing of my life with. You know that, right?"

She didn't give him a chance to answer before she continued. "But there's a comfort he needs, one we can give him, it's a certain - he needs it." She huffed out a breath, frustrated by how her state of inebriation wasn't letting her be as eloquent as she would have liked. "Yes, I'm sure. But only if you are, too."