Scheming Against My Ex-Boyfriend's Uncle
"Watching you tonight — with him — I finally understood the difference. I never made you look like that. Not once."
I didn't know what to say to that, so I said the truest thing I had.
"No," I agreed quietly. "You didn't. I don't think either of us really tried, if I'm honest."
"No," he admitted. "We didn't."
He looked, for a moment, almost like the boy I'd first started dating two years ago — before the family, before Gracie, before either of us had learned to perform contentment instead of feeling it.
"I hope it works out," he said finally. "Whatever this is, with my uncle. I mean that."