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"This gives you a chance to pick one you like" He opens one of the bottles and fills lass "This one will be fine" I take a sip and the woodsy, bitter taste takes hs, downs my wine, and then opens another bottle It’s bottle nu with theour tiether And for once, we talk about politics and current events, finding we are in sync in all the ways that ensure on’t later want to kill each other It’s this norly natural

Once the food is gone, and we’ve cleaned up, Shane turns off the television and sits on the edge of the couch right in front ofme "What?" I ask

"I don’t remember the last time I just talked with anyone," he says, and it’s clear in the way he says it that he’s a little taken off guard

"Well, since I live with you," I say, "I think you’d better get used to a lotis that I’ my wine

"Yes I am I told you I’ve never lived with a woman, because frankly, I didn’t want a relationship"

"Me either," I confess "I haven’t lived with anyone"

"Did you ever come close?"

"No," I say "My relationships have been--" I laugh again but this time without hu"

"There’s nothing to be embarrassed about Experiences make us e are, and sorow"

"Experiences," I repeat "Yes well, I’ve certainly had those"

"Tellhis faht to show anyone, and yet, I’m about to now

"Train wreck number one," I say "That affair I mentioned with a professor before, was actually a much older law professor Not my law professor because I wasn’t in law school I was a fresh at home to protect my brother"

"How much older?"

"Twenty years and one of my father’s friends Obviously he was soh Feel free to judge now"

"I’ you, sweetheart"

"I do and the worst part … When my mother died--"