CHAPTER SIXTY NINE

- HAZEL -

I'm standing outside the familiar mansion I've grown accustomed to aside from home. Getting out of the car with a man by my side, I take a deep breath.

Kate's words when she poured her eyes out to me earlier today replays in my head;

Please Hazel, help me take my mind off things. Everything is so choking.

My family, my soon to be marriage, school.... just come tonight with Kaiden and let's have a good time.

Kate needs this so here I am. I didn't know how to tell her that I wouldn't be with Kaiden anymore so I'm doing this for her. I'm sure the least she would've wanted to hear was my breakup in that state. I sigh.

I've been so occupied that I forgot to leave him. Even if I wasn't occupied, how would I have broken it to her that I dumped him when she told me about this dinner long when I was hospitalised? The least I could've done, if I actually proceeded to end things with Kaiden, was wait till after the dinner. She would approve of that.