The Wounded Love novel Chapter 12

"Yes! Okay I'll shut up."

"We weren't thinking straight. I mean, I've been really messed up over being a bridesmaid at this stupid wedding. I just wanted some comfort. He seemed to feel the same way, like something was bothering him too."

Jade tried to get me to cough up more details... the dirty details, but I refused to go into them. "At least tell me what's going through your mind. Do you like him?"

I shrugged my shoulders. "I don't know."

"You said that you already knew him. Did he seem like a good guy?" She was never a big fan of Nick, and had been trying to get me to move on so this was huge for her.

"I guess so, but I only knew him as the guy at the bar. Who knows what he's really like." I confessed.

She pondered on the new information, but before she had a chance to respond to it I blurted out, "I think Nick is still in love with me." That's what was really bothering me, not the sex with Dante. I would probably never see him again anyway. "At the rehearsal dinner he told me but then he left. The next time we saw each other was when my mom told everyone about me doing it!"

Her eyes were wide. "Did he marry her?"

"I don't know. I haven't talked to anyone. I didn't leave in good terms."

"Why would he go out with her if he was still in love with you?"

"I don't know! Maybe it was a distraction. But would that involve marrying her?"

"I don't know, Sky. Maybe he's one of those guys who just doesn't want to see you be happy unless it's with him. Maybe he wanted to get back at you. You did break his heart."

I threw myself back on the bed. She did the same. We just laid there trying to figure things out, but we came up with nothing.

I knew this day was coming for awhile now. Admittedly, I forgot, but the second I saw the missed call from my landlord everything came crashing back to me.

"Skyla just can't get enough of that Italian sausage." Luke joked. "Or do you prefer cannoli?" I smacked him hard on the back of his head but they both just laughed.

"He's not the reason why I'm going back there. It's really close to my job and the hotel is nice."

"And those are all very good reasons." Jade said. "Just admit that he was also a major influence in that decision."

"Can we please finish with these last few boxes?" I didn't want to talk about this right now. I still didn't know what I was going to do. I felt like a stalker, but I wasn't a stalker. I had other reasons besides him to stay at that hotel.

"What are you going to say to him?" Jade wouldn't stop asking questions.

"I don't know! Who knows if I'll even see him. The hotel is big and I'm not planning on staying there forever." Who knows if he even wants to see me again. Maybe he doesn't. He probably regrets that night entirely.