"So you're saying I've not worked at it hard enough?" Dumb question but it needed asking.
"Oh honey, I'm saying you haven't even started." She shook her head before dabbing under her eyes with her fingers to collect her tears of laughter.
'At least you've amused someone today,' Lennox said. He was chuckling despite himself.
I smiled ruefully. "So do you think you might be able to help me?"
Freya pulled a chair out from another table and took a seat next to me."
"Ok. So the woman that you hurt. What was her name?"
"Paige," I offered. "She meant the world to me, but I never got it. I never let her in. And then one day she was gone. And was totally lost without her."
Freya squeezed my arm. Her empathy burned my skin. I hated it, but if she noticed she didn't react.
"Well
