“Would you respect her if she came running to you? Or is part of what makes her different the fact that she’s never asked you for anything?”
“Yes. Maybe?” He shrugged. “I don’t know.”
Sondra lowered her voice. “What makes you think that people like you and I don’t care?”
don’t “Because we don’t. We do whatever it is we need to do to get what we want. It’s as simple as that. But Addison, she wants to do the right thing— or at least whatever it is she thinks is the right thing.”
thinks“Do you think it is? The right thing?”
William turned and stared Sondra dead in the eye. “The right thing for who?”
“For you?”
He scoffed and then shook his head. “It’s complicated. That’s what I think. And it’s selfish of me to want her. I mean . . . Look at me. I can barely take care of myself.”
“I do
