CHAPTER 34

Ostensibly she knew that the video had been her choice, but it was so much easier to blame Dale and his thoughtlessness. He was the one ultimately responsible for the whole chain reaction. If he had manned up and been honest with her then none of this would have happened. Yes. It was much easier to blame him and not think about how she had pursued him in the first place. It was easier to let the fault be his instead of thinking about how she had manipulated him into asking her out and then pressured him to pop the question. She’d had her plan and Dale had fit neatly into it. He hadn’t even given her any resistance along the way, so really it was his fault. None of this would have happened if he’d been honest with her from the start.

Suitably mollified by her own justification of the events, she turned back to her work. The day had already gone to shit, what with the spilled coffee and then being late. Now she had lost one job and that meant losing one income. She needed to do som