All Chapters of HIS PAST: HIS BRIDE: Chapter 51

I try booking a flight on my way to the airport, fingers trembling so badly I mistype my own name twice, the screen keeps refreshing, loading, What do you mean no available flights until 12:00 a.m?Midnight.It might as well be next year.“No,” I whisper to myself, shaking my head as though the phone can see me. “No, no, no, oh hell freaky no way…”I am not giving up like that, I refuse to even if I have to go down on my knees in the middle of the airport floor, I will, or I have to cause a scene so loud they escort me out in shame, I will. I am leaving Texas today, heaven help me.By the time the taxi pulls up in front of the airport, my mind is a crowded, suffocating place, thoughts crash into each other, I pay the driver absentmindedly and step out, the air feeling too thin to breathe.How can life be going smoothly one moment and then, the next, everything comes crashing down?Just a few hours ago, I was convincing myself that maybe I deserve a break, that maybe I can stop hover