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“Well, I sure called that one wrong,” her mom said once the true story was all out in the open Then she pulled Hadley into a hug “I’ht he really cared about you”
“Me too Ithat happened and—” E it next to impossible to talk and the tears that in the past she would have held in to keep her fa the real her fell free
“So it’s an independence party tonight,” Adalyn said, joining in on the group hug
Aunt Louise wrapped her ar-haw”
Their e, Aunt Louise”
“Some days call for water and some call for vodka, Stephanie” Aunt Louise squeezed harder “This is a vodka kinda day”
Their -haw”
The shock of hearing their h to hter And by the tie into her bridesed by heartbreak It wasn’t until she walked inside and saw Will’s black cowboy hat on the floor that it hit her like a Mack truck and she forgot how to breathe again Then the absurdity of the situation ca wrong beyond falling in love with the wrong man She’d learned her lesson She wouldn’t ever let that happen again
Fuck him He’s an asshole
Will fucking Holt really was the evil twin and the absolute worst She swept the cowboy hat up off the floor That was coht No doubt there’d be a bonfire, and this was going to go right in the middle of the flames
By the time she was done up in fullher bridesmaid dress, the tears had stopped but the pissed-off remained She swiped the hat off the bed and walked out the door, ready to have the time of her life with her family because that’s what the Donavans, the Martinezes, and the Donavan-Martinezes did—whatever it took to support one another because they were fa there was
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Three days later, Hadley was back in Harbor City and once ht, Fiona had welco and a beer
“I come from a family of seven kids,” she said as she helped haul one of Adalyn’s five suitcases up the four flights of stairs to their place “Three people in one ho Trust me”
This hborhood—aka Bloody Marys at Medusa’s Grill and Adalyn’s first trip ever to a bodega—while Hadley stayed behind and tried to figure out how in the world she was going to take her charity consulting firm from a box of business cards under her bed to a real live business