Absolutely not.” “I didn’t say we were doing it, I just said maybe we should think about it.” “Okay. I’ve thought about it, and the answer is no way.” Josh frowned, hands gripping the steering wheel in the way Hannah had once berated him for during an argument. (“The ten-and-two position is for learners, Josh, not for proper grown-ups.”) Had Hannah always been so dogmatic? He tried to remember. But like so often these days he found it next to impossible to think back to a time when things were uncomplicated and his relationship with Hannah wasn’t refracted through the prism of Dan and Sasha’s separation. “Look. I don’t like the way Dan has behaved any more than you. But what’s done is done. He’s obviously not going to change his mind about this woman, so either we accept that, or we tell him to piss off altogether.” “We can accept it without having to become best friends with them.”
