"Completely and totally," Victor told her, even though he knew the way he felt was pretty evident. "'Specially now I know you are. I just -- it's kind of new here, too."

Not new to him the same way it was to Olive, maybe. But the freedom, the relatively uncomplicated happiness of it all -- that was new. And how intensely he was into Olive on every level -- that was new, too.

He moved so he could play his fingertips over her breasts. It felt like the thing to do, if they were both okay.