Scarlett POV Living in a city of steel and concrete didn’t leave much room for actual nature. Delaney’s itinerary in hand, I ended up in J City, the so-called City of Flowers. This wasn’t some three-day tourist sprint. I was staying for a full month. For convenience and safety,y I booked a suite in a downtown five-star hotel and rented a car so I could go wherever the hell I wanted whenever I wanted. Nobody here knew my name. No grind, no drama, no people I actively wanted to avoid. For the first time in what felt like forever, my shoulders actually dropped. The ease was something A City had never given me. Even that stretch in H Country hadn’t come close; e, back then I’d talked Allen into going for his advanced program, tagged along to look after him, and still handled wor

