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

“You’ve changed too,” he replied after a few moments of silence.


“I don’t think I did, I still can’t help but jump into my old habits without a second of hesitation,” Liam said. He looked tired for a second, like the weight of the world was on his shoulders.


“You’ve changed,” Jasper reassured him firmly.


“I couldn’t get you out of my mind when I was away. Everywhere I went, I saw a ghost of you,” Liam confessed. He shifted closer, his whole body facing Jasper. He had a daring air around him.


Jasper gulped, feeling heat spreading through his bones with familiar desperation at the sight in front of him.


Like a stabilizer, the second Milo was gone, they started gravitating towards each other.


“I wanted to take the first available plane and fly to you. I’d come to you if I knew where you were,” Jasper said. He shifted too, insignificantly closer.


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