There’s a brief silence, and then Sloane starts talking, spinning me a wild web of a story about a frat party she doesn’t fully remember from her first week of college where she met Nic, and they, as he described it, fell in love. And just like that, everything I’ve never understood about his approach to interactions with Sloane makes perfect sense. It must have hurt like hell to watch her and Eric together, to see her become a part of our family in a way so different from what he initially envisioned.
