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I shook my head at him as my vision got blurry and rolled my lips between my teeth like I was trying to hold in every emotion I wanted to have burst out of me.

“Peaches, you want to go home?”

I couldn’t answer him. I couldn’t face my fears out loud.

Instead, I just nodded.

He nodded too. But he looked disappointed as he told the driver to take me home and send him another car.

Before I realized what had just happened, the door slammed, and I was on my way back.

Without Jax.

I realized too late that I was a coward and Jax had left me to be on my own as he continued the same damn meetings that slowly bled us dry of faith in each other.