Lucas
The drone of the private jet’s engines throbbed dully in my ears while my heart beat fast, it felt like it was slow even though I knew that we would be back to the state in a few hours. Gary kept on shooting me glances, I could feel his gaze had a lot of questions. I know he must be thinking What’s wrong with Lucas? Why the sudden about-face? Why the desperate rush back to the States when we had a perfectly good thing going? He didn’t say it but I knew what he was thinking.
I had barely spoken throughout the flight back, my mind replaying every conversation, every interaction with Emily, and I still couldn’t help questioning what went wrong within days of my departure.
As the jet touched down on the tarmac at our private airstrip, I practically leaped from the plane before it had
