Luke waited long seconds for the furrow on Agathe’s brow to ease, but it didn’t. She might have started this date nervous, and then happy, but now her momentary confidence had melted away. All because of his overwhelming need for transparency.
“What a lot of people in Australia don’t know about Max is that he planned on being a competitive open-water swimmer. It was his big dream, and everything he’d worked toward for the best part of a decade.” He tried to rush his explanation, hoping they could move on, and her laughter might return. The sweet, rare sound of that laugh had come to mean everything to him, but then again, he needed to get these details about his past out.
It wouldn’t be right to coax her into a relationship if she didn’t really know him, which was what this date was all
