Jackson feared that, someday, she might smile at Lucas lovingly, hug Lucas intimately, and do all the things she used to do with him with Lucas. Would she even... marry Lucas and have children with him?

Those fleeting thoughts were too much for him to bear.

The truth was, once you fell in love, you simply couldn't stop loving on command...

Serenity woke up to her phone's alarm and realized she was lying in bed, not sitting in a chair.

Did Jackson move her to the bed? That seemed to be the only possibility.

Jackson was nowhere to be seen.

The pills she left on the nightstand yesterday were gone, so she assumed he took them.

But he didn't take the rest of the medicine with him.

She wondered if his stomach was still bothering him. Then, she chuckled at herself. Why was she worrying about him? He would have the top doctors in Solaria attending to him if he needed treatment.

She quickly freshened up, got changed and went to work.

As more of her coworkers arrived at the law firm,