Grace’s pov “Will you be okay alone?” Rue asked me and I nodded. “I will be fine, just go and do your work. You can’t put your life on hold because of me,” I answered her. She looked at me, I could see the pity in her eyes. She then held my hand, “finish everything here and come to me. I will be waiting for you,” she said, and I nodded. She got on the plane, and I went back home to find dad waiting for me. “Are you okay?” he asked me, and I nodded. “Why wouldn’t I be okay?” I asked him and he smiled. “You just said goodbye to people you love. First your ex-husband and now your best friend,” he said. I sat down as he gave me a glass of whiskey. “It’s only goodbye for now with Rue. And with Maxim, it had to be done. You said it yourself, I couldn’t build a castle on a moun

