It wasn't as simple as everyone would have him believe.

Did he really have nothing to lose?
He wasn't so confident in that assumption.
Besides, his was a delicate situation.
She wasn't someone who'd just wandered into his life out of the blue.

How could he ignore their beginnings?

It was true that if he did nothing about it, he would surely run the risk of regret.
But if everything was forever changed between them…

Which was worse?

They already had a relationship.
A strong relationship that could be ruined by something like this.

There's a time and a place for taking risks.

And this was not one of them.