Chapter Twenty-One
Grace
Humiliation was a cold, heavy weight in my chest. This awful feeling was precisely what I had tried to avoid back when Boone basically fell off the face of the earth to me. Here I sat with all of our mutual friends, and he had just walked out with some gorgeous woman who showed up out of nowhere.
There was a moment of stunned silence, and then everyone tried to make an effort to smooth it over. The waitress conveniently arrived to deliver some appetizers someone had ordered, and small talk rose in murmurs around me.
Evie caught my eyes from across the table, her gaze concerned. I looked away. I didn’t know what the hell was going on or what to do. I felt bereft. When there was enough of a murmur going on, I took that moment to excuse myself. “I’m gonna head out
