Jax wasn’t one to dwell on lost opportunities. Given how long he’d been around, he’d have had little chance to think about anything else if he did. Still, in the days that followed his return home, he often wondered what could have happened if he’d stayed a while longer at Donovan’s estate. It would have been easy enough to keep busy doing more repairs on his extensive book collection.
As if it would have mattered if I had stayed. Noel would have avoided me like the plague because he knew that in the end I’d still leave. I have a business that requires my attention. My leaving might not have bothered him anyway. He wasn’t exactly thrilled when he found out I’m not an upstanding, law-abiding citizen.
Why do I even care? He’s just another man. God only knows I’ve had more than my fair shar
