After dinner, Avery cheerfully began offering movie suggestions based on the kind Christian said he usually watched on their last date. They settled on one and she had curled up with her head on his shoulder about ten minutes later.
He couldn't deny he was enjoying it but he was perplexed. And knew he shouldn't be enjoying it because getting involved if she was more invested than he was would make him feel awful.
He should really draw some sort of boundaries and make his intentions clear but, at the same time, he wanted the closeness. It was all rather conflicting.
The only hang-up he had here was the fact that he was a superhero and he knew he couldn't be a good boyfriend and keep his secret at the same time. Should he use that dumb excuse Liam came up with? She seemed to be a fairly tolerant person considering she hadn't been mad about their disaster of a date. She might be cool with it.
