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now almost two months down
the road and you haven’t come home to me.
    I want you to know that I quit Baylor Industries. There is
no way I can work for your father when he dissolved your position after you had
worked so hard to earn it. I asked Adrian for a job, and he graciously found
room in his company for me. He said he promised that he had nothing to do with
your departure from Baylor. He said he got my voicemail and honored our request
for secrecy. I start Monday, and am happy to have the opportunity to continue
with my career. However, it won’t be the same being in the boardroom without you J . I cherished those moments in the
beginning when we were trying to figure everything out. We were fighting so
hard to stay apart, when the obvious choice was to give into our love and be
together.
    You would build my hopes up, and then crush my heart so
easily. I hated that so much. It made me think I was crazy for loving you.
Crazy for thinking we had a chance, or that you really could feel the same for
me. But it was in those tender moments when you would brush your fingers
against mine, rest your hand on my back to lead me into the room, or especially
when your lip would curl into the cutest half smile when I knew you were happy
with whatever input I had just given that I would let myself believe we had a
chance. I know you think you hid that well, but I could see pride in that
little smile, and I lived for that. I still do.
    It’s obvious that you don’t want any communication with me
anymore or you would have reached out by now, but I can’t help it. I can’t help
but fight for you. You promised to do the same for me, and somewhere deep
inside my soul, I know you are. We belong together, Drake. Please come home to
me. I love you.
    Yours always,
    Morgan
     
    I press send, and then crawl into bed, once again feeling
the chill that has filled the vacancy of Drake’s absence.

 
    Chapter 7
    Garrett
    God, my heart breaks for that girl. I can see the
hopelessness in her eyes as she asks about Drake, and I feel horrible for lying
and telling her I know nothing. Giving Morgan the email was a risky decision to
make, especially because when I wrote it down for her, it didn’t even exist. It
was a split second move that needed to be made to put her at ease, as much as
possible. As soon as Morgan and her friend Amanda left the bowling alley, I
went online and set it up for Drake.
    “Hey, man. How’s my girl?” Drake sounds groggy when he
answers.
    “Hey, sorry did I wake you up? I should have waited to
call.” I forgot Zurich is only six hours ahead of us.
    “It’s okay; I don’t really sleep much anymore. What’s up?”
    “Well, I wanted to let you know Morgan and her friend Amanda
came in tonight and played a few games. Why didn’t you tell me Morgan had such
hot friends?”
    I can hear Drake laugh a little into the phone before
answering me. “Yeah, Amanda is a cutie. She’s pretty funny as well, single too.
I guess when you only have eyes for your girl, you don’t really notice anyone
else.”
    “I guess that’s true. Anyway, I did something tonight that I
hope won’t be a huge deal.”
    “Well that doesn’t sound good, what happened?” Drake asks.
    “When Morgan walked in, the sadness in her eyes crushed me.
I could tell she really wanted a fun night out with her friend and was doing
everything she could to smile and seem happy, but I can tell she’s still not
doing well.”
    “Oh God, it kills me to hear that. I’m glad Amanda had her
out though, that’s good,” Drake says.
    “Yeah, they seemed to have some fun when they were bowling,
I even caught her giggling a few times. She’s going to be okay, man. She just
misses the hell out of you, which brings me to back to what happened. When they
came in, Morgan asked me if I had heard anything from you. When I told her no,
her spirit seemed to break a little more. I didn’t know what to do to make her
feel better without telling her anything and it