Ash curled into herself, having made it home and into her pajamas. It didn’t matter that it was barely lunchtime and she hadn’t eaten yet. She’d lost her appetite about the time Burke had lost his voice. How could he have just stood there and said nothing? Her breath shuddered as she exhaled, but she held back the tears. She opened her last text from Milo, sent months and months ago. I’m just not as serious about us as you are. I’m just not as serious about us as you are.Anger surged through her, and Ash jammed her finger against the phone until the options came up. She deleted the text stream from Milo, something she should’ve done a long time ago. Maybe she’d hoped he’d sent the text on a whim. She’d tried texting him several times after that, but he’d never responded. Never called

