Chapter 70

Joan’s POV

It was the next morning, a day to face my fears. I braced myself with all kinds of pep talk before I went to sleep, but now?

Facing the multitude of people who could do anything but stare at me right now, my courage had slipped beneath my feet; I just couldn’t hold on to the truth anymore.

All thanks to Maisy and Daisy, who stood by me, I would have lost track of my stance and fallen multiple times, but they were always engaging me in short conversations and making me think of other things, which included my new car that had now been returned.

Or Max, for whom I haven't seen his brake light since our last encounter; he just knew the car was returned, and he didn’t call me or text me. I just wanted to tell him that I don’t need such luxury anymore, but it was hard with all this going on; there were still some images online about it, so it wasn’t easy to just say whatever.

I had to pipe low and observe all that was going on.

Well, this morning, Fred and I had a little morning