Chapter 22
HaleyWords and actions couldn’t be erased.
She closed the bathroom door behind her with a click. While showering, she took a hard look at herself. Had she allowed irritation to blind her love for Austin and had her stubbornness numbed her soul? For Max’s sake and for her own, she’d thought it best to separate and keep her distance. Maybe at the time it was, or she could second guess herself all day long.
Ignoring Austin’s calls in the space following his leaving, texting him telling him to give her room to breathe—that she couldn’t undo. If given a chance to rewind and change the trajectory of this relationship, she’d punch the reset button.
Now, Austin was in her kitchen making sandwiches, adamant they’d talk, which made her heart dance, but if she was honest, it was scary.
