Chapter 23

Maverick Peterson POV

'You're lucky she rejected your offer, or else you would be missing an important part of yourself."

'I know that, but she had every right to.'

Even if my mother hadn't told me to offer that option to her, I would have offered her some kind of compensation. It didn't change what happened, but it was the least I could do to make it up to her.

'I can't believe one lapse in judgment snowballed into such a large mess.'

'Mother always did say that the smallest things can make the biggest changes.'

Whatever fond emotion I normally felt thinking about things my mother had told me was absent.

I couldn't stop thinking about how Willow reacted to my apology. It was as if she had never thought I would ever apologize, and what happened to her was an eve