" and they’re a big crowd. My brother has a friend he says would like to take me to a movie, although I suspect my brother might have paid this guy.” “Nah,” Patrick said. “Who wouldn’t want to take you out? Are you ready for that—to go out, I mean?” “Not yet,” she said in a very quiet breath. “It hasn’t been very long....” Just a couple of months, Patrick thought. “And I was with Jake for a long time,” Marie added. Six years. Patrick knew exactly how long it had been. They’d dated for two years and then four years ago Patrick was their best man. Two years ago "

― Robyn Carr , My Kind of Christmas (Virgin River, #18)