“… It’s much easier being with someone who’s just more of a casual friend.”
“Like Tasha.”
“Tasha Ozera is an amazing woman. She’s beautiful and she’s brave. But she doesn’t -”
“She doesn’t get you,” I finished.
He nodded. “I knew that. But I still wanted the relationship. I knew it would be easy and that she could take me away from you. I thought she could make me forget you.”
“But she couldn’t.”
“Yes. And, so… that’s a problem.”
“Because it’s wrong for us to be together.”
“Yes.”
“Because of the age difference.”
“Yes.”
“But more importantly because we’re going to be Lissa’s guardians and need to focuse on her - not each other.”
“Yes.”
“Well,” I said at last. “The way I see it, we aren’t Lissa’s guardian’s yet.”
I steeled myself for the next response. I kknew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons…
Instead he kissed me.