20 Chapter 20: Pity the Fool

Seeing Ryan again sparked something foreign in Samantha.

It was not like seeing Richard in her dream—where he was kind and adoring to her; where he caressed her heart just as well as he did her body. No, seeing Ryan again after the engagement party was like something throwing a huge bucket of ice water at her.

There was something else too: maybe it was wrong of her to think this, but she couldn’t help but be slightly disappointed.

When Wilma had told her a man in a suit had been coming into the bakery every time she was in the back, a strange part of her had hoped it was Richard. No—she would be lying if she said it was strange for her to hope for something like that.