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“I’m going to miss you, too.” He pulled back and met her gaze head on. “Merry Christmas, Jessica. I hope you’re happy.”
Jess wrapped her arms around him a little tighter. “The happiest.”
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Myles shipped out two days after Christmas. Letting him go was perhaps the hardest thing she’d ever done. More so than recovering from the accident and even more so than getting clean. It was like a piece of her went missing, and she in turn spent the next two months practically in her pajamas. Of course, she took care of the kids and the puppy, but for the most part, when they didn’t need her attention, Jess spent most of her time alone.
Until one day in late February, Addison paid her a visit. Addison arrived as usual dressed to the nines.
“What in bloody hell is wrong with you?” she’d demanded. “You know what you need, Jessica?”
Jess considered her friend standing there and how much she adored her. “A man who doesn’t leave?”
Addison put her hand on her hip. “No. A man who wants to come back. Myles tells me that you guys Skype regularly…”
“Yeah. But it’s not the same.”
“He says he’s worried about you, Jessica.”
“He said that?”
“Yes. And it’s not good.”
“Why not? I worry about him…”
“It’s not good because he’s worried for all of the wrong reasons… Don’t you think he has enough to worry about out there without you looking like hell frozen over? It’s time to pull yourself together. Make him excited to come home, Jess. Stop moping around. It’s not doing yourself or anyone else any good.”
“I’m not moping around… I’ve been writing.”
Addison narrowed her gaze. “Writing what?”
“A book?”
She stuck her bottom lip out and nodded slowly. “Well, that’s good. What’s it about?”
“It’s about you, actually.”
“Me?”
Jess grinned. “Yeah… your life story.”
“What? Addison cocked her head and then frowned. Why?”
“I don’t know… it’s interesting.”
“You hate the choices I made. You were so angry at me for so long.”
“I do not. And I wasn’t exactly angry…”
Addison placed her hand on her hip and waited Jess out.
“Fine. I was a little angry. But that was before…”
“And this is now?”
Jess smiled a smile that lit up her entire face. There were only a few people who could make her smile like that. “Yes.”
Addie considered her for a moment. “Get dressed. We’re going out.”
