"I know you did, or you wouldn't be telling me the story, but you make yourself live that cover, except that then covers end, and then there's another, and another. They are real for you, but they aren't real at the same time." She found it said that he could define that as love. "I'm glad that you have Sam now. You're happier, even if it's not really obvious, but your smile gets real with him around. "
Savannah nodded. "In that sense, you're right, but it's not in the way I mean. I know that any two people have to compromise to be together, and those compromises bring change, whether you like it or not, but not this." She laced her fingers with G's and wrapped their joined arms around her. She wished that relationship with other men could be this easy. "I can't change this much. Even for him. I wish I could, because I do love him, G. I haven't made this decision because I'm not interested anymore or because I've changed my mind, but because I wasn't doing either of us any favors, and I know he would have been fine with just postponing things until it was too late."