BELLE

I stared at the phone, my thumb hovering over the screen. Deliberating.

My plan had been to book a flight when Grayson wasn’t looking. Then I’d sneak out to the airport sometime during the night. Maybe I could even be home by the morning.

I knew that now would be my only chance to do this.

I glanced at the bathroom door, a deep part of me almost hoping that he would come out, see what I was doing, and stop me. I was just so scared. This was all too much.

I opened up the internet browser on his iPhone but couldn’t bring myself to type anything, even...