[And even if she had confessed those feelings, he couldn't have accepted them no matter how much he might have yearned to. She didn't need someone swooping in to just fill an aching void in her heart, and he didn't want to be that person, either.
When she pulls back, he rests his arms on her shoulders gently, listening, and he nods.] All right. I can look for a place, then? I mean, if it's changed then I know the layout just as much as you do now. [Which is to say, not at all.]