For the past thirty minutes, I had been pacing my room because my head was a mess. My thoughts were jumbled up there, and I still couldn’t stop berating myself for letting my mouth run like that during lunch with those snide women.

Now I had made enemies of people who I should have just avoided because they weren’t worth the effort it took to argue with them. I knew I should have never gone in the first place because that wasn’t my scene, but I didn’t have the heart to refuse Dani.

I ...