One of these days, everything with his family is going to be resolved, and when it is, I’ll have to go back to my job. Leaving him for days at a time seems impossible and I have no idea how I’m going to do it—survive it. I’ve never been attached to anything before; not a place, a person, or a home. Mercer is all those things to me. He tied me down so fucking tight, I’m going to turn into the needy one.

