"I know what you mean. Easy to just focus on everything else going on around you so you don't have to think too hard about what's changed." Vic had done plenty of that while he'd worked through his own grief and loss. Even as just the MC's Enforcer, there'd been plenty of shit to do. Maybe if Sasha hadn't been around, he would've lost himself entirely in that kinda thing. Vic didn't know. All he knew was that eventually, things had gotten better.
"I don't think anyone would want you to forget her. Me or any of our guys or whoever you may end up going out with in the future." Sometimes Vic wondered if he remembered Zhenya a little too hard, if he ought to reduce the presence she still had at their home. Maybe he was hauling that Airstream around for nothing. He didn't know.
"There ain't a right or wrong way to go about this. I was able to find someone else to spend time with but maybe that ain't for everyone. Not saying that 'cause I want you alone forever but because that's really your choice. Only you're gonna be able to make that call for yourself. And as for me and Marina... I guess I didn't really know more as I just wondered and thought it wouldn't hurt to try. Being with her, even before we started being more than friends, was always something I was looking forward to, more so than any of the other women I knew. I guess it wasn't all that different as when you start being interested in someone new, without all the other baggage that comes with the shit you and I have gone through."