Chapter Thirty-Eight

"There's no fucking way that this happened," Brett says dramatically.

He covers his mouth with his hand as he stares at me with wide eyes. It's like he's waiting for me to say that what I told him is one big lie, but it isn't. I wish it were. Rather, I don't. I don't regret kissing Luca at all.

Victoria is even more shocked than he is, yet she tells me, "You sly bitch! I knew you had feelings for him! Didn't we know, Brett?"

He doesn't answer her.

"I didn't have feelings for him initially," I say, then pinch the bridge of my nose. "It's complicated. Things just changed one day and I didn't know how to feel anymore. I just started looking at him differently. I didn't want to accept it, though. I kept ignoring how I felt. And then, last night, he came over and it happened. We kissed."

"You're not making any sense," Victoria says. "The last thing I heard from you was that you were angry that your sister was in love with him because you felt your mother was forcing her to marry him for