“Jessie... I can explain,” Maya said.
Her heart was beating faster than it should have been. She'd known there was a chance this could happen the second she agreed to come tonight. There was no way she could show up at a charity gala on Hunter Callum's arm and somehow avoid running into her best friend.
Jessie simply stood there with her arms crossed.
“Okay,” she said. “Then explain.”
Maya opened her mouth. She could tell Jessie. Maybe not everything, but enough for her to understand. Jessie had been her best friend for years. If there was one person she trusted to keep a secret, it was her.
“It's just—”
The words caught in her throat.
Her gaze drifted across the room for only a second before she immediately regretted it.
Holiday Winters was standing near one of the floor-to-ceilin
