Layla

“But, you also need to consider what this is doing to Mark. Let’s say he has a good and honest reason for what happened and that his feelings are still as strong for you now as they were back then. Being away from you, unable to tell you his side, will be tearing him apart. Take your time to get to where you need to be, but also consider Mark at the same time.”

Fuck! Why did they have to make sense?

“What if it’s as bad as I assumed it was? What if I can’t live with what he tells me?”

“It’ll be hard,” Jacinda warned, “but then you join the First Wives Club and live your life until you find someone you want to spend the rest of it with. I didn’t see myself being with Canon, and the guy tried for years to get it to happen. If I hadn’t given myself a kick up the ass and made some choices I never thought I’d want to make, I wouldn’t be where I am today.”

“Me, too,” Evie added. “People say once bitten, twice shy, but that’s not always the case. There are exceptions to the rule, and you just have to give yourself a chance to heal so that you can find the exception.”

“I genuinely don’t see you having to find your exception, but you have to open up and face what you didn’t want to before,” Jacinda said quietly. “It’ll happen.”

Before I could reply, my phone’s obnoxiously loud ringing made us all jump, and an embarrassing squeak came out of me. Picking it up, I almost hit ignore when I saw Mom’s name. She wouldn’t call me at work knowing I could be with someone, even though I didn’t have any clients for another twenty minutes, if it wasn’t important.

And it was because of that I answered and found out that the shit had hit the fan… again.