The-Spanish-Love-Deception-www.indianpdf

wedding. So, if you are alone again …”
A very familiar and very sharp pang pierced my chest at her words.
“That’s okay.”
Is it?
If it was really okay, I could tell my mother. I had the chance to end this
lying circus, bury all that regret somewhere deep and dark, and breathe. I
could tell her that, yes, I was no longer in a relationship, and consequently, I
was no longer taking my—nonexistent—boyfriend home. That I’d attend the
wedding alone. And that it was okay.
She had said it herself. And maybe she was right. I just needed to believe
she was.
Taking a deep breath, I felt a surge of courage and made up my mind.
I’ll come clean.
Attending alone wouldn’t be fun. The pity looks and whispers of a past I
didn’t want to think of would certainly suck. And that was putting it lightly.
But I had no options.
Aaron’s scowling face popped up in my mind. Unannounced. Definitely
unwelcome.
No. I kicked it out.
He hadn’t even mentioned it again since Monday. It had been four days.
Not that if he had, it would have changed anything. I was on my own. But I
had no reason to believe he had been serious.
And it was okay; Mamá had said so.
I opened my mouth to follow up with my decision of growing the hell up
and to stop acting like a compulsive liar for something I should have the
maturity to face alone, but of course, luck wasn’t on my side. Because my
mother’s next words immediately killed whatever I was about to say.
“You know”—the way her voice sounded should have tipped me on what
was about to come—“every person is different. We all have our own pace to
put back together our lives after going through something like that. Some
people need more time than others. And if you haven’t managed to get there
yet, then there’s nothing to be ashamed of. Daniel is engaged while you are
not. But that isn’t important. You can come to the wedding alone, Lina.”
My stomach dropped to my feet at the thought.
“I’m not saying Daniel needed to put his life back together in the first
place because, well, he jumped off that boat, unscathed.”
And wasn’t that the damn truth? Something that, on top of everything,