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“I kind of picked up on that”

“It’s not just the house It’s I don’t want to get married, to be forever vulnerable to the actions of someone else”

“I know”

He hadn’t asked her to o out with hiue

“You do”

“Yep”

“I knohy this is happening It’s because I’ht out there That’s the cause of the connection we’re feeling Right?”

He wanted to believe that was all it was

“I mean, in a perfect world, there’s supposed to be so-inside-of-ether Or so I’m told Sometimes”

“I can re inward “I was about ten or eleven I’d just done soot no recollection whatsoever as to what it was What I remember was the way my dad looked at my mom, and she at him, and then they both looked back at me with this identical smile on their faces I couldn’t explain it then, but I felt so great I’ve never forgotten that feeling”

He hadn’t thought of it often, either

“There was a bond there, because they were your parents,” she said “In your case, the bond probably solidified because they raised you together In our case, on’t beso an intense attraction between us—at least I know I’uessing you’re feeling it, too—will pass Everything’s new and unknown and pretty enancy and all But when life settles back to a new normal, to a new routine”

He wanted to believe her

He wasn’t sure he did

But couldn’t prove her wrong, either