6-299: Administration Bureau Executive Conference Facility
“Well, I do and I don’t. I miss spending time with who I thought he was.
“I mentioned how he, Adler and I were all in HighEd together? Well you see, it was kind of a perfect love triangle: Adler was in love with Zayaire, I was in love with Zayaire and Zayaire was in love with Zayaire. In the end, Zayaire got the guy and if I’m honest, I thank Adler and I probably dodged a bullet each. But, I still sometimes get nostalgic for those days when I was young and thought I knew everything.”
He looks toward Zayaire one final time then turns his attention to Winta. He’ll wait a moment to see if she wants to speak and then will continue on if she doesn’t.
Lia is watching him quite closely but her face doesn’t betray anything.
She strokes his arm in a companionable way.
“Will it help if I don’t like him?”