Carmen’s POVEven though Chase didn’t inform me about what he thought about the appointment with Edna Jones, I booked it anyway.And when it was time, I went back to him, even though I didn’t want to.Fortunately for me, leaving him alone for about two hours gave me time to rethink and reset. A part of me wanted to quit almost immediately.I would have called Millie to vent, but she would remind me that she did tell me to take the deal. She would say that she told me so, and I didn’t want that, so I had given myself the pep talk I needed.“I am not going to allow Chase Maddox break me,” I declared.Oh, I did shed a few tears because of his hurtfully piercing words, but that was all, and right now, neither Chase nor anyone else would have been able to guess whether or not I had shed some tears.“It’s time for your appointment with Edna Jones,” I told Chase strictly.He wasn’t staring at me, and I couldn’t tell if it was because he was still mad, even though he didn’t even have any righ
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