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

“I’m not joking. You’re the best thing that happened to me, you make me so happy. I can’t imagine living without you.”


“Please stop talking.” Jasper feared he’d combust from the pure embarrassment he felt.


“I love the fact you have a dick too. A big one.”


“Are you confessing or asking for another round?”


Now, Jasper sat in a nicely decorated living room of the Byrnes family. Unlike his and Liam’s, it had a single style that was both mature and delicate. Wooden furniture was decorated with whites and light blues. Huge balcony doors spread throughout the wall making it seem larger than it truly was. Everything matched perfectly. When they were in their decorating phase, Jasper had asked Liam’s mom how she achieved this level of agreeability with her husband. She just giggled and said that things looked different after the wedding. Jasper thought about it for days.


Chapter 22