The sky outside the aeroplane was painfully calm. Lucas stared at the stretch of white clouds beneath him, unmoving, endless. The world looked peaceful from above. Too peaceful. As if nothing had fractured. As if nothing had broken inside him hours ago.
Maya didn't come , She didn't run after him, she didn't call and she didn't choose him. His jaw tightened. He had fought for her. Fought against his family. Against Sophie. Against the version of himself everyone expected him to be And still She didn't choose him. The seatbelt sign flickered on. The captain's voice announced their descent into Milan. Lucas closed his eyes briefly.
If she had moved on... then he would too.
The contraction came like a wave splitting stone. Maya gasped, fingers gripping the hospital sheets as her body ar
