Chapter 130

Astrid emerged pushing a cake with lit candles, leading everyone in song.

“Audrey, happy birthday!”

My eyes filled with tears. After college, I’d married Blake and lost touch with these friends. Now they were here, crammed into my rented apartment to celebrate.

“Look, she’s crying!” Astrid teased.

“Yes, you all moved me to tears, I admitted.

My college classmates, design course friends – faces I hadn’t seen in years all smiled warmly.

“Don’t cry,” said a college friend, squeezing my arm. “When you graduated and went straight into marriage, we thought it was a waste. You could’ve done amazing things with jewelry design.”

She handed me a tissue. “We saw the divorce news yesterday.”

Today uni

celebrating your birthday and your rebirth! Another friend raised her glass.

“Yes!” I nodded through tears.

The party buzzed around me. Astrid had planned everything food, drinks, music, games. It felt like our carefree college days again.

approached with a gift box.

understood his

me to irritate you today… but I didn’t know how,” he admitted sheepishly.

too far

this gift for

I

a KTV venue Astrid had booked. Glasses clinked, songs

a mic, looking gleeful. “Blake Parker rented a bar for his

She swa

“We’ve booked this room, and we’re not leaving until

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tipsy enthusiasm made me smile. It had been too long

finally headed home with promises to

I sank onto the sofa, still buzzing from the celebration. The simple

my contacts until I found one I hadn’t used

typed: Rachel, if only you were here today, it

Rachel had been gone for four years,

Laurel’s POV

car disappear down the driveway, the cold evening air barely

Blake ask about her

measured despite my boiling anger. My father stood as I

coat,

went to the hospital to see

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