I haven’t taken Emma’s advice about calling Isaac, and the longer he doesn’t call me, either, the angrier I get at both of them. Why would she suggest I grovel to him when he was the one who was rude? I don’t have time for rude.

I also miss him like crazy. I miss his beard scruff on my thighs and his snarky text messages. I miss sitting at my house and working next to him, yet not feeling suffocated by him.

Ever since we set our course with ...