Well, this was certainly going much better than their last talk. Why hadn't they just started like this? Stupid etiquette and propriety made them pretend a degree of standoffishness that maybe they hadn't really felt.

Which wasn't to say everything was all sunshine and roses. There was a lot of baggage they'd have to work through if they wanted to get back to square one, both from Canada and the intervening two years.

"I didn't sleep with her," he blurted, in an attempt to address one of the bigger elephants in the room. "Whatever the tabloids said."