Ruin me, Stepbrother
So instead, instead of thinking about something that'll force me to make a decision that I've been trying to make for a long long time, I reached for something adjacent to the truth.
"I think I'd want simplicity," I said slowly. "Everything in my life feels complicated right now. Tangled up in other people's expectations and my own mess and all this pressure to have it figured out. So I guess I'd want something simple. Straightforward. Easy."
"Like this?" Miles gestured around the cabin. "Remote woods, no cell service, just existing?"
"Maybe. Yeah." I looked at him, at the firelight catching in his eyes, at the easy way he inhabited his own body. "You make things feel simple, uncomplicated.