Her mother shrugged. “Their marriage didn’t last. I don’t know where they are now.” She sighed. “The point is, I know it hurts right now, but you will get over it and you will find someone else.”
Cassie laid her head on her mother’s shoulder. “Thanks, Mum,” she said. “I just need some time.”
“I know, honey,” she said. “Take all the time you need, but you do need to get back up on that horse. Don’t walk away from every other good thing in your life just because you got hurt by one of them.”
The next two weeks passed like a movie montage for Cassie. She and her mother gradually ate their way through the chocolate hearts, but it wasn’t the only gift Brian sent her. There were flowers and more chocolates from Jonathon and even some tickets for her to fly anywhere in the world with a friend
