CHAPTER 73

I wriggled my toes inside my shoes. I wanted to go home, change into some pajamas, and eat ice cream. Even if my ass was feeling the numerous tubs over the last week or so.

No, I told myself. I was not doing that anymore—being a whiny teenage girl over something she couldn’t help. Something she couldn’t stop. I’m going to be the strong, independent woman I am.

After all, a man can’t make me, so there’s no reason to let him break me either.

Mental pep talk done, I followed Brenda into the bar and to our usual table by the window. It provided the perfect spot for people-watching, something I’d found myself doing a lot since we went to Spain, and it gave Brenda the perfect view of the door just in case a hot guy should walk through.

Our friendship was kind of skewed, I was realizing.

One bottle of wine appeared on t

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