"Really?" She tilted her head at him, taking the offered package. "I did, you know, think about just... dropping out. I could've stayed in L.A., or gone to New York or something, because, god, after all that..." She didn't have to say any more about 'all that', because Dom knew as well as she did, better than anyone, what it had been like, what they'd been through. What they'd shared.

"But that's just not who I am. I love the dreams, and I'm grateful you led me to that, but I also learned to stay close to what's real."