Chapter 18
Ryan fumed and kicked at boxes in his path while talking to his mother on the phone. “How could you tell her it was a good idea, Mom?”
“Because it is.”
“No, it’s not. Anything could happen to her. And she’ll be too far away.”
“We need to trust she’ll take care of herself.”
“But—”
“Maggie’s not a child anymore. She needs to live her life. She needs to move past the bad memories.”
He sank onto the edge of the couch and pinched the bridge of his nose. “Running away won’t help.”
His mother’s sigh sounded the same as Maggie’s had an hour earlier. “She’s not running away.”
“Traveling all over Europe, thousands of miles from home, is running away.”
“No, it’s not. She’s traveling, expanding her horizons. Think of it as an adventure.”
Damn women and their adventures.
“She fee
