 Reflexive-pair groupoid formula in a preadditive category

For a reflexive pair $f,g:A\rightrightarrows B$ with section $r$ in a preadditive category, each hom-set diagram defines a groupoid. Arrows $a,b:C\to A$ compose when $ga=fb$, by $b\circ a=a+b-rga$. Identity at $x:C\to B$ is $rx$, and the inverse of $a$ is $rfa+rga-a$. Bilinearity proves the endpoint, identity and associativity laws and compatibility with precomposition in $C$. In the hom-set formulation this does not assume that the composable-arrow pullback exists.