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“But I ah yourThe one thing I love about us, Guinevere, is that we talk, we laugh, we tease each other, we laugh irlfriend, you were my friend; I love that”

She drank, not a little bit, but her whole da out the corner of her mouth When she was done, she inhaled deeply and wiped her mouth

“We’re going to hate each other,” she confessed as I refilled her glass “Not in the beginning We’ll try to be understanding, but eventually I’hter and feel like the odd man out Which is horrible, Eli She’s your kid I’ll know that, but I’ll still be hurt You’ll feel guilty and then annoyed because I’ you because of it Sloill wear each other down until…until we’re fighting all the ti because we love each other and don’t want to let go, but realistically knoe should I can see it so clearly,you because of work and then when I do you have to be with your daughter Besides, I still have things I want to do with my career too… I’m selfish, Eli I don’t like that I ahter or anyone I feel like they are standing between us, like they are the thing between us… I want to spend so with you Those are the things I’ about”

I finishedto the point that I was starting to get a headache

“In your books, hoould the hero and heroine work this out?” I questioned

Her led “The heroine would have gotten on the plane and we’d have to wait for book two to see the later”

I hadher sound cheerful “Who do you think would play me in the book to movie version if there was one?”

“Tom Hiddleston,” she said without even a moment of hesitation

“We look nothing alike Guinevere”

“I know!” She grinned, reaching for the bottle “But he’s hot and I’d happily play myself, thank you very much”

I rolled ood luck with that”

“A girl can dream”

“If you are going to drea you in the shower and on the bed, in your parents’ basement, it needs to me”

Her eyebrow rose and she looked ready to challenge me “And if I don’t?”

“The moment I feel you hot and bothered beside me, I’ll happily remind you one thrust at a time”