Chapter 40

• Cassie flung herself onto her childhood bed and sobbed. She’d held it together until she’d gotten to this point, but now that she was alone and she didn’t have anything to keep her going, it all came crashing down on her.
• Thankfully her parents hadn’t said much to her when she turned up on their doorstep close to tears in the middle of the night. They didn’t have to, their expressions said everything. It was the I-told-you-so look. Maybe she should’ve listened to them. Maybe she should’ve heeded their advice, and then maybe she wouldn’t be sobbing her heart out over someone who thought so little of her.
• This is what came of wanting too much, trying too hard, reaching too high. This is the consequence of flying too close to the sun…you get burned. And she had been, twice now. She had wanted too much with Nathan and he’d married someone else. She had wanted too much with Brian and he’d turned his back on her and accused her of…she didn’t even understand what he was accusing her of.