My office was so quiet, the only sound was the air conditioner clunking on above us.

Levi pushed his chair back. "Look, if this is asking too much with my mom, just say so. I'm an adult. I'll figure something out."

Levi had come to me, not because he had to, but because he trusted me. I'd been furious when he'd confided in me at the beach because it presumed a level of intimacy between us that he himself had cut off. It was selfish and hurtful of him to put me in that ...