Quotation

p. 8–9 She’d never shared her deepest fantasies with [Alan]. Fantasies she sensed Ethan would understand and maybe even get into, but ones she doubted Alan would have taken seriously or been willing to act out. When she’d realized that, she’d also realized that she’d held a lot of herself back from him. Lack of trust because he was an agent…or just a man? She’d never decided which, but it didn’t matter. He hadn’t loved her enough to put her first and she hadn’t loved him enough to tolerate his job or trust him with her innermost being. They were actually pretty lucky they hadn’t ended up married. They would have hurt each other. She was sure of it.