“But I don’t think you understood what you were asking me to lose.”
Tears filled her eyes.
“I told myself you wouldn’t enjoy the wedding.”
I waited.
“That it would be easier for you too.”
She looked down.
“But that wasn’t true.”
“No.”
“I wanted to believe it because then I wouldn’t have to admit what I was doing.”
I felt my own throat tighten.
“Which was?”
Lauren wiped her face.
“I was trying to keep my new life separate from the part of my old life I thought made me look less successful.”
I looked at her.