Chapter 192

At that moment, no matter how anxious I was about Evan Smith and wanting to meet Simon Gray, I just couldn’t say no to Summer Lewis. I had this gut feeling—if I brushed her off like I did yesterday, I’d really lose one of the people who mattered to me most. The cold look in her eyes honestly freaked me out. Now that the whole mess with Sean Miller and Lynn Anderson was out in the open, I had nothing left to hide from her. I didn’t want her to keep compromising herself for a relationship that was clearly wrong, wasting the best years of her life. I’d already made up my mind—during lunch, I was going to sit her down and talk things through. If Summer could understand where I was coming from, and see who Sean really was, maybe she'd decide to walk away. Back then, I was naive enough to believe it would work. Because of that big blow-up at the wedding yesterday, it was bound to be awkward between us if it was just the two of us. That’s why I also asked Xander Lewis to come—he had a way wit