It seemed like the night of terrible talks that needed to be done, so Joy figured she’d blurt out everything about Wendell, maybe cry a little into her soup, and then be able to enjoy the rest of her meal.
She knew she wouldn’t be able to. Scott had literally just asked her for a complete blueprint, and she still had nothing. She didn’t know what she wanted, other than to keep seeing him.
Her life felt torn completely in two, and Joy did not like it. She didn’t know how to deal with the raging emotions on one side—the part of her that wanted to abandon her principal and the teachers who relied on her in Sweet Water Falls and stay in Hilton Head right now.
And she certainly didn’t know what to do with the whispering voice in her head that reminded her of how much she had in Texas, how lo
