5. We spent New Year’s Eve in Adam’s audiovisual room...
6. Emilia spent the rest of New Year’s Day in her room at Heath’s...
7. My body felt like it was breaking in half and my heart along with it.
8. Emilia had her minor surgical procedures done...
9. “Not All Secrets Stay That Way Forever”
10. I leaned back against the couch and listened to her sleep.
11. “You need to do it, Mia.”
12. I stood frozen for a moment while Emilia heaved...
13. “Meta-gaming or the Lives our Characters Lead, Without Us”
14. Over the next few days all she seemed to do was sleep...
15. “Take that you green-faced fucktard!”
16. It was two a.m. and I’d drifted off to sleep again...
17. “Online Friendship: Is It the Real Deal?”
18. After brushing my teeth and changing into my pajamas...
19. I was sure that Adam thought I couldn’t handle a little...
20. I knew she had questions that I couldn’t—or wouldn’t—answer.
21. Something was wrong. I knew it the moment...
22. Thank God I checked on her regularly after a new round.
23. “I can help you with one of those, you know,”
24. I spent about a half hour with Jordan signing paperwork...
25. Two weeks later, the night before Adam’s twenty-seventh birthday...
26. We slept in the bed together and I know she was expecting more.
27. The hotel was breathtaking, and from the moment we entered...
28. I was enjoying this immensely.
29. Project Seduction was about to cash in.
30. I folded her in my arms, held her tightly...
31. The night before we were to fly home...
32. Two days after we returned home, Emilia went in for her scan.
33. I was doing this for Adam. He wanted me there.
34. “Do you want to talk?” I whispered.
35. I undid the towel from his waist...
36. I watched as her face clouded, like a storm suddenly sweeping overland.
37. I waited in the weighted tension between us for him to respond.
38. I was up all night. I didn’t even try to sleep.
39. Full circle. That’s what this was.
40. I dreamt about her every night she was gone.
41. The hotel room in which we were staying for the wedding...
42. It was almost midnight when I fell back against the pillow...
43. I lingered on the rocks after that short, humble ceremony.
44. I jogged up that hill as quickly as I could once I left the sand.
45. I trudged across the sand and let myself into the cottage.
46. Emilia had pressed something into my hand.
47. Six Weeks Later.
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Author’s Note
Copyright
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