Need a long discussion

she gestured with her hands, "very different for Ethan." "Hmmm, well it's pretty different for me too. From the first time I met him.

he was very difficult to turn down." I took another sip. "Impossible, really." She grinned at me. "Well, I'm glad for him, and glad to finally meet you, Brynne. I'm sensing there is more to come for you two?"

Hannah worded it as a question, and I had to give her props for being so intuitive, but I absolutely was not going to share the crazy lunatic proposal of marriage Ethan had dropped on me during the night. No way. We still needed a good long discussion about that little suggestion. I shrugged instead. "Ethan is very...confident about what he wants. He's never had any trouble telling me. I think I have more trouble hearing stuff than he has with saying it. Your broth- er can be as blunt as a wooden plank."

She laughed at my assessment. "I know that too. Subtlety is not in his lex- icon."

"You can say that again" My eyes caught a picture on a cabinet