"No, I want to," Kevin said. It was true, he did. He had always wanted a child, hadn't wanted one now, but he felt attached to him already, just from seeing his room and looking at his picture. "I do. I'll be here for him whenever I can and I'll teach him everything I know, and..." He paused. "And this is a really awkward thing to say, but, I -- well, I have a girlfriend? So I don't think..."
He didn't think she was trying to get him to marry her, or anything, even if that was possible, but it was probably good to put that out there. If she'd taken this long to tell him - even when he was in hiding, he'd been reachable by owl post or journal - then she probably wasn't still interested in him anyway. It had been more his disguise, his character, that she'd had chemistry with, not Kevin himself.
"Different?" he asked, curiously. He wasn't quite sure what she meant by that. Farther away from Edgar and his cronies?