“Why pick now to tell me this?” Sawyer locked eyes with his sister, making sure she knew he was not going to let the subject drop now she had piqued his interest. “Did something happen to whoever it was you used to love? Are you going to ask me not to invite them? You wouldn’t mention this at all if there wasn’t a reason for it, so spit it out.”
“I haven’t spent much time with you recently.”
“We’ve both been very busy since dad died.”
“Recently was the wrong word. I meant that we haven’t spent much time together since you moved away.”
“You are avoiding this conversation.”
“I’m not avoiding anything, and I resent that accusation.”
“So what has the fact we haven’t been as close since I moved away got to do with anything?”
“Your life has changed so much in the past year, and it’s going
