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"She told you that?"

I didn’t think I told her I was having second thoughts I thought I just said I wasn't sure if Jon was able to make a commitment to the relationship

"I love Jon," I say to him "I mean, I love him as a person I think I could love him as a man, in that way But I don’t know if he can do that back"

"Hun, you two have known each other for how long? Five years? If you don't know each other by now, you never will You know hiood man?"

"He is," I say, iood person andand he's ambitious and he's funny But he plays around and has never had a serious relationship"

"Maybe he's never had you" My father raises his eyebrows like he's made a point in our discussion It feels like the point "Maybe," he says, and takes ive him a chance"

"And ruin our business relationship? We have an aood together I don't want to ruin that"

"Then don't Go all in It seems to me that you've already o home, I always say"

I set so smart about relationships?"

"II know about love andI know about being a father"

I squeeze his hand again Both of us are silent for aabout Steven's death, which has left a hole in row scar tissue where the hole still is

"I hope things work out with you and Jon," my dad says after a , honorable young man"

"You think so?" I say, surprised to hear him talk about Jon that way

"I do," he says “If Steven liked hiuy"

That rooman I should be able to decide on my oho I sleep with and who I love, but I' listened to Marina, who has warned ether with him has surfaced, which it has on and off over the years