Chapter 95

Will

I had a plan. A solid plan. Force her into an uncomfortable situation by way of barbecue and exhaust her so much after filming most of the morning that she'd go to sleep and ignore me, ignore the past, ignore all of it while I tried not to lose my mind.

My plan didn't work.

Because I forgot one tiny little thing about my friends, about the people I represented.

They were extremely forgiving.

And loyal.

So if one of them wanted to give someone a chance again, they jumped on board, they were family even, though not all of them were blood.

By the end of the night, I was the exhausted one, dreaming about my pillow while Angelica sat by the fire with a few of the girls and laughed.

The first time I heard it, my body went completely still.

The second time, I thought I was hallucinating.

And the third time, well the third time, I had no choice but to look in her direction. My breath caught in my lungs because, that laugh. God, that laugh was one of my favorite sounds in the w