18
Eighteen days. Eighteen days since the best day of Cat’s life and the worst blended together. Eighteen days since she ran out on the man she loved. Eighteen days that she forgot who she was and became a shell of the woman she used to be. Eighteen days.
Cat knew she never should have gone out with Ryder. She told herself time and again he would be just like the rest. And then she tried to convince herself he was different. But he proved her wrong. He wasn’t different. And it hurt worse.
Cat survived her second weekend without Ryder by burying herself in work. She stayed away from Thomas’s, but she brought her work home. She turned off her phone, telling Lizzy to come get her if she went into labor. And she worked. She worked until her eyes crossed and she lost track of what she was do
