The Canary Who Left First

He called her easy to manage, right up until she was gone

Qimao AuthorModern Romance3 chapters1022 words

Mia Jiang has one rule she has never broken: the moment someone treats her as an option, she leaves. Her mother learned it when Mia was eight, standing at a school gate that stayed empty. Her best friend learned it in high school, after one careless photo. So when her boyfriend's childhood sweetheart moves into the home they chose together, and Elliot Pei tells her to be reasonable about it, Mia packs her passport and disappears without raising her voice. Elliot is wealthy, handsome, and entirely certain he can win her back. What he has never understood is that a woman who never argues is a woman who has already decided. Now the chase is on, and Mia has spent her whole life being very, very good at being gone.

• runaway-heroine
• wealthy-hero
• childhood-sweetheart
• self-respect
• chase

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