A woman discovers her boyfriend has given away her seat to another woman, a small betrayal that cracks open bigger questions about their relationship. As she confronts the slight and the people behind it, she must decide whether to fight for a love that has already started to shift or walk away with her dignity intact.
When Mia Jane climbed back into my boyfriend's passenger seat, I didn't throw a fit. I didn't even raise my voice. Before, I would have looked Julian in eye and asked why his childhood friend always got the seat beside him instead of his But this time, I didn't bother. You can't wake someone who's pretending to sleep.
Mia gets carsick. She's sitting up front. Don't start over something this petty. babe I get carsick really easily you don't mind right she always called me babe like that sweet as a kitten looking like a kid who'd just stolen someone else's toy not at all Julian looked caught off guard he probably didn't expect me to deny him the chance to play the bigger person and
me petty I didn't expect Ethan Rivers to be on this trip he was the cousin Julian was always trying to cozy up to and the youngest star surgeon at downtown central hospital people said cold obsessive about cleanliness and not interested in women like a scalpel that never left it ceased he must have just gotten out of surgery even sitting there in silence
he felt completely out of place with julian's loud friends athens claire we hadn't known each other long i only saw him now and then at parties after i started dating julian every time he'd nod take the quietest corner and look ready to leave at second i didn't know it then but that cool untouchable man was about to become the
thing that shook me loose from that dead-end relationship and this trip would rip away the last bit of civility between Julian and me