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“It’s not… Not that kind of coward More about my life My choices I could transfer to another park and have far more opportunities Opportunities I deserve after all these years and training”

“Why don’t you?”

“That’s the million-dollar question, isn’t it? Instead I live up in my dad’s old cabin alone I stay at a job where my ex is my boss and he and his movie star husband parade their new baby in front of e? I wouldn’t even want Brad back But I’m still here because I’m afraid to leave Montana is all I’ve ever known I’ve barely even been out of the state except for driving up into Alberta over the Road to the Sun”

“It’s beautiful here”

“It is But I’ time” As the words came out, Ben realized they were absolutely true “I need to shift out of neutral What am I afraid of?”

“I wish I could tell you I’” Jason shifted with a little sucked-in breath

“You okay?”

“Leg’s cra Need to turn over”

Ben pulled back his arusting over Ben’s face as he settled facing hiain and touch, but he tucked his hands under his cheek There didn’t see off half-cocked and irrational, so there was no excuse to hold him close now

He wished he could see his face, but the darkness was complete “Jason, you’re one of the bravest ot to be brave to even think about raising a kid alone At any age, let alone as a teenager”

“I wasn’t brave I was terrified” He was silent for a long fewsoftly “Sometimes I can’t really reie’s mother Like, I have pictures and stuff, but in my head, she’s all…faded”

“I’ue

“We were best friends since ot a scholarship to my prep school, and she was on the swiether”

After a few …”