ANDREA’S POV
“How are you holding up, Sweetie?” Julia asked softly.
I leaned back in my seat, sipping on my iced coffee. I exhaled. “Note good, Jules. Not good at all.”
I felt frayed in every direction. The whole potion-plague situation was already putting me under a s**t ton of stress, but then seeing that engagement announcement…
I didn’t like how it made me feel. I didn’t like how it took me back to that moment five years ago when I first felt betrayed by my so-called mate.
But I shouldn’t have been surprised. I mean, this was Kade we were talking about, and he’d already been engaged to Natasha before.
Still, that didn’t stop the anger—and pain.
It had hit me so hard that I didn’t know what to do with myself. I’d told Gina to drive home without me, not wanting my
