"It's fine," Alasdair says, laughing as he closes his laptop and leans his elbows on the table. "Happens to everyone. I've heard the same thing out of all my sisters." He'd learned to keep the rapturous parts of love to himself after Edie, though. He doubted that was what she wanted, but it had seemed the best way of coping after they broke up.

And now? Well, Elani was the dancing and singing one among the two of them.