Chapter 21
Emma sat outside Ethan’s apartment building for half an hour before finding the courage to get out of her car. She didn’t want to do this. She didn’t want to see him. She didn’t want to look into his eyes and remember all the things he’d said to her, before and during the break-up, and she didn’t want to have to ask for something potentially dangerous when he had every reason to turn her down. She didn’t even know how she was going to convince him to help John. She just knew that she had to.
The day was deceptively clear, the sky blue and tranquil above, a slight wind picking up the loose hem of her blouse and flattening it against her stomach. Emma used the time it took her to walk up the path to the security-locked front door to carefully erect all her walls again. She was g
