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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
Honolulu, Hawaii
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AMELIA STARED AT HERphone as she lay on her sun lounger under the mid-afternoon Hawaiian skies.
Cindy had revoked her statement and confessed that the baby was her boyfriend’s. The president’s press secretary stated that she had lost her job after attempting to blackmail a senator, and the matter had been swiftly shut down. A refusal to answer any more questions on the matter.
Wow.
She dropped the phone and gazed out across the pool as Logan dived in and swam over to Emma.
Ugh, she wished they’d stop kissing.
All the loved-up couples around her were just a reminder of her yet again failed attempt at a relationship.
The fact Jack hadn’t messaged her now that his situation was resolved spoke volumes. Had he lost interest? Met someone else? Was he angry with her for pushing him away?
Whatever he was thinking, it was clear he didn’t care enough to want to mend things.
Or explain what had actually happened.
Not that she had given him a chance.
Aside from that one message, she hadn’t heard from him since that fateful night.
And if he did reach out? Then what? Could she forgive him and move on? Could she trust him?
Amelia had cried enough to form a small river in her home state and was exhausted.
Now she was in Hawaii, where she’d plastered on a smile and was playing happy Amelia for her brother’s wedding, yet deep down, she was still healing her broken heart.
Except after reading that Cindy had lied, a spring of hope was clawing its way inside her chest, and she was terrified it would hurt her when she didn’t hear from Jack as he’d promised.
He was undoubtedly moving on, so she needed to as well.
Starting now.
She had the people she loved around her, was going to see her brother marry the woman he loved, and all the sunshine and cocktails a girl could ask for.
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LATER THAT NIGHT, AMELIAdressed up in her favorite Karen Walker dress for a cocktail pool party on the rooftop and almost all her cousins were there. Then they headed out to a Honolulu bar and danced the night away until the early hours.
By the time she got home, her feet were aching, and she fell deep asleep until morning.
