Cadence continued. “I know. I just… I didn’t really want to go to lunch with her, but I thought that I might as well do it if it could also get Christian off of my back.” He said nothing, and she knew it sounded pretty despicable, but the girl could’ve said no. She ran a brush through her hair and approached a nearby mirror with her makeup bag in hand. “Anyway, no lunch with Jamie. But I will see if he wants to talk soon.”

“Okay,” Aaron said quietly, and it began to annoy her how much it bothered him that she’d set Ashley up with Christian. She knew he...