Chapter 145 I Drove To My Parent Home

• “I drove to my parents’ home, told them the wedding was off, collected some clothes I’d stacked there, then kept on driving,” she went on, her voice gathering the same grim, shut-out purpose that had been activated this morning. “The next day I made the calls I had to make to cancel the wedding, assure my family I was okay, resign from my job which was no great drama since I’d been about to take time off for my honeymoon anyway. I simply... dropped out of the whole scene and left Jodie and Flynn to it.”
• It wasn’t simple. It was trauma on an extreme level—a double betrayal completely blowing her mind and everything else it had touched and tainted. She had survived it in her own fashion and Tony admired the way she had gradually restructured her life along different lines. No regrets about it, either. But the clean slate had ghosts that had never been confronted nor exorcised...ghosts that had to be dealt with and banished.
• Nothing was ever totally black and white and Tony suspected it was the greys that haunted her, the greys that had never been allowed a voice. They had to be talked about. He had to know how much power Flynn Lovett still held over her heart, and it was better she face it now with him than continue to repress it.