But for me, it was sickeningly different. It’d become obvious after our first kiss that she would turn my world upside down. That was why I needed to keep my distance. If I had to act like an outright dickhead to do it, to protect myself from her unintentional destruction, then I was willing to do that. It’d killed me to ignore her, but she deserved more than an emotionally stunted forty-year-old man who’d never been in a relationship.
