Who's Crying Now, Ex-Husband?

Chapter 294

Archie had bought it for her.

She glanced again at the route traced in red pen through the guidebook: from Kingsford to Solaris City, with two major legs and three stops along the way.

First, Kingsford to Magnolia Harbor; then from Magnolia Harbor, following Highway 317 all the way to their final destination, Solaris City.

Nearly three thousand miles in total.

She did a quick calculation-if they made good time, they could be there in seven days.

Mila put the guidebook down and turned to watch the spring landscape flashing past the window. Her heart felt suddenly hollow.

How long had it been since she'd last taken in the scenery outside, just for the simple pleasure of it? Just for a bit of peace, with nothing weighing on her mind?

She honestly couldn't remember.

Life had been so crowded with responsibilities and troubles lately, she'd barely had a chance to breathe.

Her eyelids grew heavy as these thoughts drifted through her mind. She'd only just recovered from a fever, and after lunch she'd taken her medication. The exhaustion—both physical and mental-pressed down on her, making it impossible to resist sleep.

fluttered closed, and soon she'd drifted

slumped asleep in the passenger seat. He quietly changed the music to something mellow, then eased off the gas, letting

Half-awake, half-dreaming.

herself drifting back into old

afar the first moment anyone had ever truly made her

her

him, searching for any scrap of information about the

hard to

at their university-not just because he came from a prominent family, but because he was a

out about him was

though, was that someone so perfect-so out of reach- had never once been rumored

had given him all sorts of

reputation for turning down confessions with brutal honesty: sometimes dismissing

message was always clear: None

crazy, but even so, his popularity only seemed

brains, athleticism, and looks to match. If he had a

learned about him, the more discouraged she

knew she was decent-looking, and her grades weren't bad either-but she couldn't hold a candle to Lysander, who

family background? She didn't even