chapter 112
BAILEY PARKED IN front of the old hotel and almost started crying when she saw the old men in the library looking out at her. She dreaded having to face them. She hadn’t slept much during the last few days, and she had lost over a million dollars of their money to a guy who she had thought loved her. Most of the stolen money had been Moon Pie’s. But, since he treated Levi like shit, she hadn’t thought they were close enough for Levi to choose a hateful half-blood over her. Obviously she had misread both relationships, so she never attempted to call Levi. Bailey figured that he would just lie, and she was tired of being lied to and tired of lying herself. It was time to face what she had done. Her main motivation in taking the money had been to protect it, but it was now painfully obvious that she should not have told Levi. Her next move was to tell her grandmother and her friends the truth and pray that they would one day forgive her.
On the drive home, she had decided to commit herself to achieving her dream of designing dresses, knowing that it might take several years to legally earn the needed start-up money. She was ready to make a fresh start, and she desperately wanted her grandmother in her life. Family is everything. Bailey supposed she would also have to pay back the money from Kroger that she had lost…though she had no idea how. That notion was almost too overwhelming to contemplate.
Bailey—embarrassed, confused, and praying for no small amount of forgiveness—walked inside to face the four old folks whose dreams she had destroyed.