Chapter Thirteen
Being moved to the county jail bothered Billy Jo more than she would have admitted. Even though she’d never really thought Chase was going to get her out, she couldn’t help feeling this sense of having been let down again, which was stupid, considering she didn’t let people in to give them a chance to let her down. That was something that had been kicked out of her years ago. She was a nobody. She wasn’t wanted, she was trouble, and she wasn’t loved, whatever that meant.
Billy Jo couldn’t understand that feeling of family, of knowing that no matter what, someone loved you. Maybe that was why it bothered her now when Chase gave her hope only for everything to crash around her. What was wrong with her for being foolish enough to listen to him and believe him? Hope was some
