“But you said—” “I know what I said.” Vanessa pulls her hands from mine and perches on the side of her bed. I follow and drop down next to her with a few inches between us to give her some semblance of space that I really don’t want to offer after that bombshell. “You know what I am,” Vanessa says. “I do. I think you’re the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me.”
