“Okay. Ground rules,” I said, and locked gazes with Eli. “I pee alone and I shower alone. Some things need to remain a mystery, and those are two I firmly believe in.”
“Shoot. I feel guilty for peeing. That first bottle of wine alone was almost two hundred dollars.”
“You know, I'm atheist, but I get it. I get why people have faith in a higher power. Some people need it. They need to believe they're not alone.”
“If I could be alone, I would. Gratefully. I'd rather be alone than have to pretend I'm okay.”
“I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.”
“No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.”