"Thank you! That's my point exactly! And it's why I refused to follow Max on this stupid quest to find out more information. After everything that happened last year, you'd think he'd want to keep a low profile for a while." She shook her head, "But no, he knows best and he's determined to find out more."

"And yes, a husband. Tess was, is, Max's bride. And Michael? The guy I've treated like a second brother for then years? Is my betrothed husband. That's a level of squick I cannot even describe." Isabel stopped and put her face in her hands, rubbing her eyes, before looking up and continuing. "That's why I left. I couldn't deal with Max's quest, and Michael, despite the fact that he's completely in love with someone else, was insisting that we needed to spend time together because that's the way things were supposed to be."