Liam cancelled his wedding when his fiancé Jasper ran away with his best friend. About to go on the honeymoon alone, Liam meets eighteen-year-old Milo, who desperately wants an airline ticket to anywhere. Two strangers board the plane; two near-friends deplane, then live together in a hotel room on an exotic island, developing a unique relationship. Back in England, Jasper has to face reality without Liam and starts to realize what that actually means.<br><br>Then new information about their wedding and insights into their past relationship surface and the truth stops being black and white. If Jasper’s best friend didn’t confess before the wedding, would he still have run away? If Liam didn’t meet Milo at the airport, would he still have boarded the plane? Was it destined to go exactly this way, no matter what? Sometimes choice is ripped away from us and we are left to deal with the consequences.<br><br>With so many things out of their control, can Liam and Jasper heal themselves and their relationship?

Heal

Milo heard a chuckle. He looked at the stranger, someone who was older than he and Liam but still not old. A stranger with a brand new watch and, unmistakably, a variety of shopping bags that weren’t his.


“You must still be new to this if you sit here for twenty minutes without complaining,” he said.


Milo just stared at him, not being rude but not understanding what the other was getting at either.


“Listen, no matter how feisty the girl is, you can’t just let her do whatever she wants. I give mine fifteen minutes and we move to another shop,” the stranger said as if he was passing the wisdom not many have heard of.


Chapter 19