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“Seriously?”
“Yeah.” He shifted in the chair to stuff his hand in his pockets. “But then I changed my mind.”
“You don’t want to marry her?” Hugh arched an eyebrow as he sat beside Damian.
“I want to, I just don’t want to risk rocking the boat when things are so good between us.”
“You’d think that would make it the perfect time to propose,” Hugh said.
Damian shrugged. “We’re all happy. Why change that?”
“Some people would argue that getting married wouldn’t change that.”
Damian chuckled. “You know what I mean. Anyway, how’s things with you? I’ve hardly heard from you all week. Does that mean you’ve been seeing a lot of Allie?”
“No.” He linked his fingers at his chest, sliding down in his seat. “I broke up with her. Tried to anyway. I wasn’t overly successful.”
“What does that mean? And why would you want to split up with her?”
“I’m just not sure how compatible we are. When things were easy and fun it was fine, but things got complicated.”
“So you broke up with her?”
“Yeah.” His gaze was fixed on the water, but he was barely registering anything in his view. “But she said she didn’t accept it. That I should go and think it over and we could talk again.”
Damian smiled widely. “I like her a lot.”
“Me too,” Hugh said sadly.
“I don’t understand why you’d break up with her.”
He tilted his head. “She was only supposed to be here short-term. I guess she’ll want to go off and chase her golfing career eventually.”
“What?” Damian screwed his face up. “You’re breaking up with her because you’re worried she might leave someday?”
“She had an amazing career. It makes sense that she’d want to get back to it.”
“Maybe, but it’s golf. Even if she wanted to get back into it, she could do it from here, right? How long do golf tournaments last?”
“I dunno.”
“Just a few days, surely.” He stared at Hugh. “You also seem to be making a lot of assumptions here.”
“Yeah. Maybe.” Hugh leaned forwards in his chair and scrubbed his hands over his face. “Part of me thinks I’m just freaking out for no reason, but I can’t seem to help it. I guess Nancy leaving might have made me insecure about this stuff.”
Damian shook his head, then pressed his lips together as though trying to keep his thoughts to himself.
“It’s all right,” Hugh said. “When Emmy isn’t around you can say what you want about Nancy.”
Damian massaged the back of his neck. “It pisses me off so much,” he said quietly.
“To be fair to Nancy—”
“It’s not Nancy who pissed me off,” Damian said, a quiet anger to his tone that surprised Hugh. “She left you and it was shit, but relationships don’t always work out, couples don’t always stay together.”
“Why do you look like you want to punch someone then?” Hugh asked, wondering if they’d switched to an entirely different conversation without him noticing.
“I don’t know if I’d go as far as punching her … maybe I would though.”
