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

Liam knew he loved Jasper, he never stopped. He didn’t go on this trip to run away from him, but to heal. As a part of the healing process he consciously tried to distance himself and made steps in that direction. He never contacted Jasper (except that one time), he tried not to think about him (except those few times), he tried and tried, but failed, making all those exceptions. He wanted to be one of those feminists who preached about self-respect and freeing themselves from those who hurt them. They’d never let themselves be treated like that, but they also didn’t know the love he did. Deep inside he knew if he stayed and let Jasper explain himself, he’d forgive him. Jasper was a beautiful, kind soul who sometimes got lost in himself and his messed-up reasoning to explain the world around him. Sometimes it led to creative and mind-blowing ideas, sometimes to catastrophes.


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