CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE † CONVERSATIONAFTER MY Mention Phoenix While the Guy You Have Feelings for Confesses He Wrote a Song for You fiasco, spending ten hours in a car with Luka with
nothing but the English countryside between us should have crippled me. Still, I got out of bed with a groan, took a guilt-riddled shower, packed my bags on the verge of tears, and checked the room
one last time for anything I might have missed the first go around. For the entire elevator ride to the parking garage, I composed the most eloquent apology I’d ever come up with in my life.
I had ten hours to get up to it. When the doors dinged open, I took a deep breath, straightened my shoulders, and put an amiable smile on my face, expecting Luka to be waiting for me by the
car.
Instead I got Samrah in a navy b
