Lauren’s love for Jackson and Brooke completed her life, a contented life-almost. At times her independence seemed to be slipping away, and at times she resisted Jackson’s constant worrying over her-but those were small bumps in the big scheme of life. Unless losing her independence and feeling smothered was what led her to break a promise. Could she justify breaking her promise to Jackson, and going against her own conscience? Could she live with what she’d put at risk? Jackson was forgiving and open minded, but was Lauren asking too much of a man who had already lost so much once before? She would find out when she confessed what she’d done.