#Chapter 117: What’s Changed?

After my lunch with Hugo, I begin to ignore Miles’s calls and texts. Since meeting him the other night, I haven’t always known what to say. I would respond to his messages with simple replies or cute smiley faces. He’s been busy so that’s helped me from divulging too much before I was ready. But now… keeping up appearances just seems dishonest, not with what I plan to do. Hugo was right, letting people go is difficult. For him, the person he pushed away deserved it. Miles doesn’t. We are just two very different people unable to meet in the middle right now. Maybe in eight years, if Miles completes two terms and backs away from the political spotlight… If he still wants me then, perhaps things could work. But that feels like a lifetime away. Who knew would could happen in that time? At work, Hugo asks Kimberly to increase my workload, keeping me so busy I don’t have time to think about anything else. I can hear my phone vibrate with texts, but they are forgotten in the next mome