Carmen stared at the text from Liam. She wanted to tell him she missed him too, but she knew that he would take that and try to convince her to come home. Liam liked to be in charge. It was one of the things she admired about him. He always seemed to know what he wanted and where he was going.
She wanted to be more like that. She needed to be more like that in order for their relationship to work. So she didn’t respond to his message. But when she crawled into bed that night, she held her phone close and read it again.
Over the course of the next few days, Liam became harder to ignore. She never knew when to expect it, but he would shoot her a text. The first couple struck her as odd statements, but then she realized he was telling her everything he knew about her:
I know you love morni
