Scarlett POV
“I was hoping you’d tell me your ex-husband had moved out.”
Ryan’s words were direct.
My eyes widened slightly.
I hadn’t expected him to be waiting for that piece of news.
For a moment, my mind went strangely blank.
“You and I have made no kind of commitment to each other,” Ryan continued.
“I have no right to demand anything from you. But I want to be honest. As long as you haven’t fully separated yourself from your ex-husband, anything between us would be ambiguous at best. And if we started something under these circumstances, I think we’d end up just as confused about how to end it.”
His voice remained steady and firm.
I felt increasingly uncomfortable as I listened.
I even felt as though I’d wronged him.
I wasn’t sure whether he’d finished speaking, so
