Aelissm returned from the kitchen, and June let the matter drop as the two longtime friends returned to the matter at hand. Aaron listened passively to their conversation, nursing his beer, and contemplated his options regarding Skye. He knew one thing for certain. He could not ask her to give up her career. She had far too much talent and far too great a love for her craft, and asking her to give it up for him was the surest way of making her resent him.
“Do you think she could make a living here as a photographer?” Aaron asked.
“Who? Skye?” Aeli inquired.
“Yeah.”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa. You’re asking if Skye… like she might actually be coming back for good, as in you two at the altar and the whole nine yards?”
“I really don’t know yet, Aelissm, but it’s something I am definitely thinking
