"Fine," Ray replied, the haste with which he said it suggesting it was given more for show than anything. If that wasn't enough, the quick shift from sitting on the mattress to sitting on Asher's legs should have given away that he wasn't done yet. Ray didn't want him leaving before he was.

"I find it hard to wrap my head around the idea that you were so different back home. I don't know anything about that life. Does that seem right to you?"