Carly
Brad wouldn’t stop trying to call me. He refused to give up. Maybe when I had been younger, and I had still wanted him to pursue me, I would have appreciated his attempts to get me back. Now, I wanted him to leave me alone. I wanted nothing to do with him.
There was no point talking to him anymore. It didn’t matter how well we got along, how much it felt like we connected the way it used to be. He had ruined my life. I should have known better than to get involved with the man who had broken my heart once before. But time had numbed the pain from before, and I had been willing to give him another chance.
That had been a mistake. I couldn’t be a part of the scandal that was all over the news. I had known that Brad’s life was all over the papers all the time—there was a reason I’d k
