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"It is, but India is a country everyone should see, especially if you like yoga. My father and I took several classes with a yoga master. It was probably as much meditation as it was posing, and we had to do it in utter silence."
"Did you enjoy that?"
"It was hard to stay that focused for that long, but I think it was good for me. Even now, some principles I learned there come back to me."
"Like what?"
"Remembering to take a deep breath. To stretch the body. When you relax the body, you relax the mind, and problems are solved."
"I didn't realize it was that easy to solve problems."
He grinned. "Some problems, not all. Basically, it's just about slowing down, being in the moment, because in that moment, most things are good."
She nodded. "This moment is good."
He met her gaze. "I think so, too. Now, let's order, because I'm starving."
Over a delicious dinner of spicy chicken curry, red lentil dal, a flatbread called Roti, and a couple of glasses of wine, they talked about everything under the sun. Besides their unbelievable physical chemistry, they also got along very well.
She could talk to Decker about anything. No topic seemed off limits. Although they were both skating around any discussion of the future, but that was fine with her. Staying in the present was okay for now, and maybe the past was even better.
"You haven't said much about previous relationships," she said, as they finished their meal. "Have you ever been in love, Decker?"
"I'm not sure I'd say love, but I've had feelings for a few women."
"What happened? Why did those relationships end?"
"Most of them just ran their course. Or they ended because one of us had to move on."
"Were you the one who moved on?"
"Not always me, but sometimes," he admitted.
"You said you've been in LA for the past several years. Is there someone there you're seeing?"
"If there was, I wouldn't be seeing you," he said pointedly. "If I'm with someone, I'm with them."
"Until you're not," she said, unable to keep the disappointed note out of her voice.
"Not very many relationships last forever," he said. "You know that better than anyone."
"I do," she admitted. "What about friends? Who do you hang out with in LA?"
"I have a couple of guys from college who live near me. We bike, play softball, volleyball on the beach, that kind of thing. I work a lot. When I'm not working, I'm usually travelling. Last year, I went to Costa Rica and New Zealand."
"Did you go by yourself?"
"Yes. I'm very comfortable on my own. And I usually make friends along the way."
She had a feeling he made a lot of friends along the way. Was she just anotherfriend?
She already regretted starting this conversation. She needed to get out of it. "So, have you gone through any more of the boxes you brought home from the house?"
"Still need to do that. I just haven't found the energy."
"Maybe it's not about energy but about nerve."
"Could be," he acknowledged with a nod. "I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that Eleanor's husband Hank was my biological grandfather, and he didn't want anything to do with me."
