“So why don’t you marry me?” she asked, blurting out the question that had been plaguing her.
“I explained this to you Cassie,” he said, his patience waning. “I can’t marry you. You live in Melbourne, your life and career is there.”
“I could move back here,” she said, taking a step towards him.
“I couldn’t ask you to do that,” he said. “I would never expect you to give up your life for me.”
“But what if I wanted to? I’m sure I could get a job here in the same field and then we could be together all the time.”
“You would end up hating me,” he said. “You would resent me for making you give up everything you have built for yourself and that would break me. Bae, what we have, it works. If you want to keep seeing Brian, then I’m fine with that. We can still keep our arrangement.”
“So you
