Chapter Sixty

"Lola, it's not what it looks like," she said, pushing Jake away. It was a lost cause, she knew, but she still explained herself.

"I wasn't thinking straight and with everything that's happened, I'm so sorry I shouldn't have…"

The slap was quick and sudden, yet so painful. She fell back on the sofa, a tiny hum the only thing she could hear. She'd never seen her friend this angry before and it scared her.

"You're going to use your sob story as an excuse to kiss my boyfriend? Seriously? He's been right there at your reach but you never accepted him and now he's finally with me he's now attractive to you? And you call yourself my friend?"

Lola raised her hand to hit Anne again, but Jake stood up and held her hand.

"That's enough," he said in an authoritative voice.

"That's enough?" She sobbed. "What did I not do for you? I love you, Jake, I've changed whenever you asked me to change. I did things I wouldn't have done for anyone else, and this is how you repay me? By cheating on me w