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

Minutes later, Jasper opened the door to his own flat. The lights were off, but the TV was on. Liam couldn’t sleep well nowadays, sometimes for days at a time, and especially when Jasper was away. He made his way into the living room but got no reaction from his wide awake boyfriend. He coughed to get his attention but got no response.


“Liam,” Jasper said with much more force than necessary, but he was too exhausted and miserable to be playing games. “I’m going to visit my aunt tomorrow.”


“Okay,” Liam replied but made no further attempts at talking to him.


Jasper felt his feathers bristle with fury. He tried to hold it in. He truly did. Why couldn’t Liam be like Daniel, so nice and unproblematic?


Chapter 41