#Chapter 24: Amanda’s Birthday

I stared at the reminder on my phone. How could I have forgotten such an important thing as my best friend’s birthday? Amanda must have been furious with me. Was that the reason David had snuck off to see her in the original timeline? Did he feel the need to cheer her up and show her that her birthday hadn’t been forgotten? It didn’t excuse what they had done—they shouldn’t have been having an affair in the first place—but it did help me understand why they had acted the way they had and why they were most likely going to repeat those actions. It also gave me an idea of how I could make sure to expose them. All I had to do was buy myself a little time. I needed to make sure somehow that the wedding wouldn’t be official until the next day. When we returned to the house, I hurried to my father’s study, where I knew he would be hard at work. “Hello, darling,” he said brightly. “How did the wedding planning go?” “It went well,” I replied, sitting in