My mind buzzed for a moment, but the smile on my face stubbornly remained.

"I'm not telling you this to break you two up, just to give you a heads-up. At our age, it's fine to have some fun, but there's no need to take it too seriously," Jack said.

He wasn’t wrong. We were middle-aged now, and we saw love and relationships for what they were. Once you figured them out, they were just... things.

But even though I understood the logic, my heart still ...