Chapter 13

"Emma asked me why I told you to leave," Luke said when he called that evening. "What exactly did you tell her?" "That I wanted to stay for the reception. And what you said I’d have to do." "You could’ve called me first." I put down the dish I’d been drying. I’d told Emma the truth in three sentences. Already I was trying to remember whether any of them could have sounded harsher than I meant. "She thought I’d decided to leave after the ceremony," I said. "Did you tell her that?" "He...