Passionate night.

You’re not serious,” Mark laughed. “You’re mad because she won’t drop her life and run to only exist as who you need her to? She can only have a life if you want her to have one? Don’t you hear how insane that sounds?”

“That’s not what I meant.”

“Yes, it is. Let me guess. You want her to quit her job, uproot her father from his facility, that he loves and is thriving at, move out of her apartment, lose all sense of her own identity, so she can move in with you and do nothing?”

“Why do you make it sound so bad?”Lucien retorted.

“Because it is! It’s terrible! That’s not how relationships work!”

“Then what am I supposed to do? I don’t know how this works. Do I just see her sometimes and let her just… do whatever?

“Yes! You make plans, and then they get cancelled because she doesn’t have a babysitter. You see each other on weekends. Whatever the arrangement you had before is dead. And you aren’t married. You don’t own her. You never will. She’s your girlfriend now, and you’re going to tre