“You’re right, we won’t,” he said, tone solemn as he gripped her wrists and gently pried her hands from his coat. “When Jasper revealed what happened to your parents, when you said we were repeating history, I realized you were right in asking for space. There can be no ‘we’. We’ve been flirting with danger a little too much. It’s my turn to try and be the responsible one.”
