Chapter Sixteen
All day Friday, little pricks of guilt tormented me. Maybe Nina was right. Maybe I’d only said yes to Brad because I didn’t want to deal with the emotional aftermath of my split from Luke. Maybe I was just trying to relive a part of my past instead of seeing what the future might have to offer. Then again, was there some predetermined amount of time that had to elapse before I could start seeing someone else? It wasn’t as if I’d gone out looking for a new relationship; this one had pretty much been dumped in my lap. And if Luke really wanted to talk, he knew where to find me. Too many times in my life I’d apologized for things that weren’t even my fault, and as much as I missed him — ached for him, if I really wanted to admit it to myself — I was damned if I was going to c
