As soon as I got back to the house Rin stepped out to speak to me.
She had been worried that I would make a mess of things.
This had been my last chance, and all that I could tell her is that Marius decided to change our plans, and that he seemed to genuinely like me.
I didn’t want to tell her everything.
I didn’t want her to take advantage of Marius, and if I told her about the night in any sort of detail I knew that she would see countless ways to do that.
The man wanted someone to connect with in a way he couldn’t with women like Xena and Suki, and I didn’t know why he had chosen to spend time with them when he so clearly yearned for somebody to talk to him about the things only his wife would have been able to understand.
I didn’t put on a show when we shared food and drink from
