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“Come on. You can ride with us. We’re gonna take one car and meet up with everyone else at the course.” Mikel patted Atlas on the back.
“Maybe I shouldn’t go. I don’t think Jasmine—”
“Trust me on this. She needs it more than she knows,” Mikel said, giving him a gentle push towards the car.
He climbed into the back and buckled up as Remy turned the radio on from the passenger seat.
Atlas peeked out the window as Mikel got in and reached across the console to hold his wife’s hand as they waited. Jasmine left the inn, a pink bag over her shoulder. She enteredthe SUV with the kids, coming out a moment later without the luggage. Not looking up, she walked to their car and slid in. Jasmine sat as far away from him as she could after shutting the door.
Mikel pulled onto the road.
Atlas glanced over at her. Jasmine’s attention stayed glued out the window, her eyes empty and glassy. Like she wasn’t really there in the car with them. Who had been the one to cause her pain?
He was helpless. An awkward outsider. What could he do? It wasn’t rational, but he wanted to be the one to pull her close and hold her while she released whatever it was she was holding inside. To wipe the stubborn tears when they eventually fell. The man to make it all better and earn one of those wild and free smiles that felt like sunshine in the dark. But had he already missed his chance? Would Turner be that man for her?
Over my dead body.
He had no idea what this was between them, but it was time he did something about it. Their relationship was a storm he wasn’t prepared for, strong enough to drown him. It was time to jump into the deep end. She’d been the siren who’d drawn him to her. He’d just have to hold on tight and hope it wouldn’t wreck him—that she wouldn’t sink him.
