She blushes. “Like I said, it’s easy to look back and say that person did a bad thing or that person did the wrong thing only without truly knowing the time and all the factors that went into a decision, it’s not fair to say if it was right or wrong you don’t really know if you don’t understand the context in which the decision was made. Not all good people do good things, not all bad people do bad things. It’s not always about the things we do, the why is just as important. Or so I’ve grown to believe.” She smiles. “I’m sorry. Sometimes you speak like any other person than other times your speech is so formal it throws me completely.”

“I have been told that. I believe it is a carryover from learning English through a very rigid, premier private school. Then staying with that world until I went to college.”

“English wasn’t your first language?”

“No,” I sip the last of my scotch. “I spoke Greek because Agatha spoke Greek. My brother tried to teach me English. However, we did not spend enough time together for me to acquire even a basic understanding. When I was five, I went into school where I learned quickly. Although at home I was still made to speak Greek.”

“When you have children will you want them to speak Greek?”

I shrug, “I will not have children.”

Shadows appear in her blue eyes. “Do you not like children?”

“Over the course of the last few years I have learned I do not dislike them. Drake’s children have rather grown on me. Dmitri and Elise’s children have also surprised me by how much I quite like them. Although I do wish Dmitri’s wife would stop handing me her baby and laughing when it spits up on me.

“It is not that I like or dislike children it is that I do not like the idea of marriage. I like my life the way it is. I am aware of my faults and do not desire to change for anyone. My work is more important to me than getting home in time to have dinner or going to some party women always seem to want to attend. Let me guess? You want a large number of children?”

She nods, her head down. “At least three but I think four sounds like a nice round number. Your work is really that important to you? You don’t care about anyone but yourself?”

I do not care for the question or the tone of her voice. “The scotch has weakened your tongue when you really could not afford it further weakened.”