"I mean, it's not like my motives were totally pure, either," Victor said, not sounding too broken up about any of it. It had been a while ago. "And .. it's not like they did anything in front of me, right? It's more -- how she's talking about him and looking at him. All of that. But yeah, if they're holding hands next time I go home, it's gonna be weird."

Privately, he thought Nico/Chase made more sense than Gert/Chase ever had, but that wasn't the kind of information he was giving this Gert yet.