Listen to a thousand years when reading please!
"I love you," he said and we kissed.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because, I had to, to save your life."
"A life for a life." I realised.
"Yeah, a life for a life." And he faded into thin air; I felt his body become air in front of me and sank to my knees, devastated, yet I felt so right.
He was gone.