Chapter 44

But she hadn’t been okay with it at all. The way she freaked out when she heard that he was getting married had shown her how much she’d been deceiving herself. Cassie had convinced herself that she was above other women who mooned over their latest crush, but she was no better. She and Nathan had had this arrangement for five years and she hadn’t dated anyone else in that time. She knew he had, but she had kept herself for him, convinced that he would eventually see the light and realize that he was in love with her all along. Fuck. She made herself sick. “So what do you feel like doing?” Brian asked as he walked back from depositing her bags in the second bedroom. “Movie? Card game?” “Dessert?” she asked and he smiled. He walked to the freezer and removed the tub of gelato that she’d brought earlier. God was that only a couple of hours ago? It felt like days since she had stood outside his door feeling nervous about spending the evening alone with him. Brian grabbed two spoons and br