"I doubt that will happen. I have the best looking man around in my arms, my bed, my teams. How can I get tired of that?" He slid his hands down and cupped TJ's ass. "Be careful, okay? I don't want to lose you. Use that brain that you have. Hostages are rescued within forty-either hours. After that, the chances that they are alive diminish drop considerably. No one attempted a rescue, but they are preparing for different conditions. What does that tell you? Other than the fact that I want you with me day and night?"
Travis tried to follow all of that, but there were so many discussions that TJ was pouring in. "Did I mention how strange your family is? And I got that much even though what you just said made little sense. Look, babe, you can rehash thirty years of history with your parents or you can move forward. You can't change the past, so let it go. Focus on what you have now, and who you are now."
He kissed TJ gently and pulled back. "I told you when we met that the people you knew don't exist anymore, because reality changes us. It changes your family, it changes your brother, and it changes you. Taken out of the political arena, you might be the best of them. I certainly think so But, if you're talking about your past life, a life where everything was judged according to DC standards, then he was the perfect child. The two things don't have to be mutually exclusive, but as I told you more than once, politics are gone. Your family needs to find a way to adjust and you are the one who's better equipped, because you didn't hang your entire future on politics. Your brother prefers a woman who's not going to ask questions and who's going to let him have his pity party. He might prefer her, but he needs you, just like you needed someone to get you out of that mentality where you're either better than everyone or never good enough. Sometimes, we just have to be, because that's what life is. As long as you try to be the best person you can be, then you are someone. You don't have to be the President of the United States. Slowly you can convince him of that."