HER SECRET 3

Sierra’s eyes burned but remained dry. His reference to the abandonment she’d known in his arms pricked her nerves. She didn’t need to hear his reminder of it. Now, she knew what she’d feared all these years was true. He’d left town believing her a whore.

But she refused to show how deeply that troubled her. She’d shed all her tears for Matt and for herself years ago. She’d done what she had to.

‘It wasn’t like that. I wasn’t sleeping with him.’

‘I guess you might as well have been. You’d already made up your mind to marry him. Was it some kind of game I didn’t know the rules to? You and Ben moved with a fast crowd. Was it a dare, the thrill of venturing into forbidden territory?’

‘I was never that flighty, and you know it.’

‘Well, whatever I did, I took it serious. If you were just looking for entertainment, you should

have been straight with me. Hell, I would have accommodated you.’

‘Seriously enough to make it clear you were passing time until you saved enough money to leave town?