At the end of her shift, Corinne could no longer put off thinking about the situation she’d landed in. The only thing she’d wanted since she came home was to quietly claw herself out of debt and make a life for her son, while staying as under the radar as possible. She got plenty of looks and snide remarks from people while she worked at the diner. Nobody expected the student body president to wind up a divorced college drop out with a child. She’d been planning on going places, doing things—albeit as part of the fruitless pursuit of her parents’ approval. She’d done considerable travel with Lance, but she wasn’t about to tell people that. They might think she was bragging or looking for some kind of sympathy for her current lowered circumstances.
And now she was partnered up with one of
