With his queen's life in limbo, Maxon finds it hard to sleep- let alone run a country. America's heart attack has left her family in the wreckage of a terrible waiting game, hoping against hope that this won't be the end. Maxon is struggling to find the strength his family, and nation, need with America's string in the slippery hands of the fates.

I smiled into Kile's mouth as I remembered me practically begging him to kiss me for that photo. It was hard to imagine how begrudgingly he had agreed to it as his fingertips left ghosts of touches on my cheek and neck. . . but then I remembered I had to promise him he could leave. Did he still want that?

Maxon and America are old friends reunited. But when things get in their way, will everything between them still last? Modern AU about Maxerica.