Chapter 24
Jessa swung her backpack over her shoulder and grabbed her purse on the way out of her suite. In the days since she’d screwed up the courage to tell Eli how she felt, she’d been riding a pendulum of mixed emotions—angry, sad, frustrated and feeling plain stupid. The first day, she’d contemplated forgetting her burgeoning dreams of staying in Diamond Creek because she thought it might sting a bit too much to run into Eli. In her more rational moments, she’d managed to quiet her childish, embarrassed voice and recognize she had plenty of reasons to stay here, and none of them anything to do with Eli. If things had worked out with him, it would have been a major bonus, but it didn’t appear that would be the case. Yet, she had family and a growing circle of friends, more leads for
