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So

She suddenly wanted…

She wanted forever, damn it

But forever didn’t exist

Yes, it does You’re looking at it right now

Butand long-lasting relationship was a gift for them, and them alone

You can have it too With Jackson

But…could she? Her own otten ten divorces out of it What if Mia was destined for the saed her throat She’d avoided serious relationships her entire life Shied away fro her heart broken But was she right to be scared? Or were her fears si her mother’s life shatter every other year?

God, she couldn’t think about any of this right now

Her gaze darted back to Jackson’s parents, and a rush of panic swaro home Now

The anxiety attack caht All she kneas that she couldn’t stay in this house She couldn’t face Jackson’s family after what she’d done to Tiffany She couldn’t face Jackson Not tonight Not when her heart was trying to pound its way out of her chest and her lungs refused to accept the oxygen she was gulping in Not when her mind was a jumbled mess and her eht actually pass out

Everything after that initial siege of panic was a blur

Somehow she ended up upstairs

Somehow she wound up on the porch with her carryon hastily packed

So into the backseat of a cab she didn’t re

And so a ticket for the next available flight to San Diego

It was only when she entered the gate that Mia beca, and once she did, a flashflood of guilt whipped through her

She fumbled for her phone, horrified that she’d left the ranch without saying goodbye to Jackson Without thanking his faain

But despite the deep reo back She wanted to go hoe of Danny’s absence and really think about what all thisback tears, she sent Jackson a brief text letting hi hoate until it was tiht was scheduled to leave in twenty-five ed to check-in before the kiosk closed and zip through security without a hitch It had all gone so smoothly she felt like one of those unrealistically fortunate characters in a movie