Chapter 49

• Max watched her sleep, her chest rising and falling in rhythmically. He loved the little pout she made while she slept or was in deep concentration. The moment they arrived, she told him she was going to take a shower and he'd thought he could catch her before she was done but Zander had decided he was hungry. And because the kid was still mad at him, he spent longer than necessary to tell him what he wanted. A part of him had been tempted to throw Emilia under the bus and he would have done it if he thought Zander would believe it. To him, his mother could never do wrong.
• They finally decided to have a sandwich each and Max tried to bribe him with another game but ended up promising to get him two. They shook on it and reconciled. Being the overachiever he was, he told him about the vacations they took when they were young and the ridiculous stuff Darren used to do that landed them in trouble. Before he knew it, an hour had passed. By the time he got to their room, Emilia had fallen asleep. She must have been tired because she didn't even bother changing.
• During the flight, he could tell she'd been uncomfortable which was his fault. Now that he looked back, he saw how he'd neglected her in the past. Aside from their honeymoon, he hadn't taken her anywhere else. They went on dates but nine out of ten times, something would come up and interrupt them. Forcing him to send her home early. Max couldn't deny he had been a shitty husband so he'd decided to do it differently this time. His position at the company was stable and now he could give his wife all the attention he hadn't given her the first time around.