I nodded. “This is a great opportunity for me.” One I wouldn’t have taken if Leo had been better, but there was no use being hung up over a man that turned out to be a d**k. If my life stopped every time a man was an asshole I would never start living.
The fact that I couldn’t forget about him didn’t matter. I’d decided that his irresistible charm was just part of his game, that he was someone that did this to everyone to get what he wanted. I told myself I was lucky that I’d gotten way instead of falling for him and then he could really hurt me.
“I will visit often,” I said. “It will be fine.”
The last part of the sentence was for me rather than for Natalie but she didn’t have to know that. I hadn’t even told her about the date with Leo, the extra time we’d spent together. I had kept i
