The days following Isis’ breakdown was hard to watch. She barely spoke and spent most of her time secluding herself away from everyone. Gage allowed her space to gather her thoughts. He needed the separation too, to think about what he was going to do from now, going forward.
Gage had two paths to choose from. He could open his heart again and leave himself open to love, or he could continue the road to self-destruction. In Isis’s turmoil, he was seeing how she wasn’t the only one in pain. He had to deal with his past and let go of the hurt. It was the only way he was ever going to move forward. Gage decided the one thing was in the way of him, and Isis’s happiness was his need for control. He was hurting the one person in his entire life he trusted to love him.
In the next few weeks, he
