CHAPTER 24

 CIARA 

I pushed past the skinny woman on the doorstep and stormed away from Noah. His hurtful words kept ringing in my head, and no matter how much I tried to push them away, they refused to leave. 

'That's way more than you have, way more than you'll ever have. All you do is hide behind your father's money and your little bakery. Hell, you're not even confident enough to run the bakery. When was the last time you attempted to make something out of it, huh? Never.'

The tears that filled my eyes threatened to fall, but I managed to hold them in. 

I would not cry because of a man. Not especially when that man was Noah. 

Fuck that man. He had successfully managed to undermine me and mock me with my insecurities, and I was so mad, so fucking pissed at him. Pissed that he called me a coward. Pissed that some part of what he said was the truth.