CHAPTER 145

She dropped her face into her hands. “Oh God. I did overreact.”

Bethany slid her hand over Josie’s back.

“I should have confronted him, absolutely, but I completely overreacted. I shouldn’t have done what I did. Now he’s going to be so pissed at me, and I don’t blame him!”

“He won’t be pissed, Josie,” Mia said softly. “He’ll just be glad to have you back.”

She shook her head miserably. “It’s worse than what you think. He said . . .” She sighed. “He said he loved me and I threw it back at him. I said some pretty horrible things. Like that I couldn’t trust that he wasn’t saying it to manipulate me.”

“Was it the first time he told you?” Bethany asked gently.

Josie nodded.

“Then it’s understandable that you would have reacted the way you did,” Mia said. “Do you love him?”

“Oh yeah,” Josie breathed. “Completely and utterly in love with him.”

Bethany beamed. “There. You love each other. You can work this out. He’ll forgive you and you’ll forgive him.”

“You make it sound so easy,” Josie mutt