Chapter 14
Desiree
I sleep in the back of Junior’s car, Jasper curled up in my lap. It’s not a peaceful sleep, it’s the kind I choose when I can’t deal with my thoughts and just need to escape them. I should be overjoyed at having Jasper back.
I am overjoyed.
Or I’m sure I will be tomorrow. But right now, it’s all too much emotion mixed together.
I wake up when we get into the city, as if my body was awake and knew where I was the whole time. It’s late—almost two in the morning. Jasper’s sweet face rests against my chest, his breath easy and soft.
“Junior, I need you to take me to my home,” I tell him.
Jasper stirs and I rub the back of his head like I did when he was a baby.
“Yeah.” That’s all he says. The distance between us is an ocean. We haven’t spoken the entire ride home.
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