“But I was the one who fell in love,” she murmured and shoved the spoon into her mouth.
“Is that such a bad thing?” he asked and she rolled her eyes.
“Well, obviously,” she said. “I wouldn’t feel like such a bloody fool if I hadn’t.”
“How long were you two together?”
“Five years,” she replied.
Brian whistled. “And neither of you felt the need to ask for more? You didn’t feel at some point that the arrangement wasn’t working for you anymore and that you wanted more?”
She shook her head. “The last few months we were together I began to, but I suppose I just thought that eventually we’d end up together,” she said, licking her spoon. “Isn’t this weird for you? Talking about this stuff?”
He shrugged. “I’m just trying to understand what the allure is, what changed so that you suddenly dec
