CHAPTER 34
I WANTED TO run away, but I didn’t stand a chance in that awful outfit. Since we were in church, I thought it was worth a quick prayer for the ground to open up and swallow me, but did anybody listen? No. Instead, my knees gave out and I fell to the grubby stone floor, drowning in a sea of pink chiffon. Tears prickled my eyelids, and I blinked them back, willing myself to hold it together in front of Nick.
“Lara, I’m so sorry... I don’t know what came over me... I wasn’t thinking.”
Of course he wasn’t. No way would a man like him ever want a girl like me if he was.
“It’s okay. I understand.”
I was half telling the truth. I did understand, but it wasn’t okay. At that moment, I wasn’t sure things would ever be okay again.
“It’s not okay. I shouldn’t have touched you. I shoul
