"Uh-huh."

"That's great." Miles forced a smile despite his chapped lips cracking a little, drawing a thin line of blood, "Abigail really loves you."

Craig nodded, "I know."

"Treat her well, will you?"

"Uh-huh."

Miles cast his gaze downwards, finding himself at a loss for words with his future brother-in-law. The air between them grew heavy with silence. After a few minutes, it was Craig who broke the stillness.

"Trying to drink yourself to death?"

Miles blinked, caught off guard, "...I don't know. I just thought if I got drunk enough, I wouldn't have to think about anything."

Otherwise, the pain was too much to bear.

Every inch of him ached.

"It's definitely over with Felicity?" Craig had some recollection of the girl.

She was feisty and unreasonable, always approaching him with a storm brewing in her eyes.

next to his nephew, the two made quite

he had come to accept, knew no bounds of mismatch or incompatibility. If two

"She doesn't want to."

Craig chuckled softly.

funny?" Miles

one arm to the next! After all, with no financial pressures, all

on breaking up with Abigail after finding

tongue, then said, "I felt like I

terms of social status, background, education, wealth, he felt short in every

our loyalty, starting with my grandfather. Once we set our

mention your parents'

that my sister and I exist is a stroke

back then

now, aren't your

my dad's

your parents faced, they ended up together. Maybe consider this just

seemed everything had come

Waiting here for him.

Sutch."

deep breath, "Felicity... she's different. She won't give me a

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