I hugged her back. “I don’t want you to go either, but you have to do what you have to do.”
Suddenly, the smile left her face. “I can’t leave you behind, Ash,” she said softly. “You’ve had too much of that. And I won’t add to the list.”
That meant a lot to me for her to say that. She was one of a few people who knew I had this hang up and where it came from. We’d been friends for a very long time and she’d never once betrayed me.
“Thanks Amber,” I said.
“And you deserve to be happy too. Cas is a good guy. You know I’d never try to set you up with some loser. Trust me. I checked him out real good before I took you to the concert. Plus, he’s friends with Mickey and you know how he is. He doesn’t like a whole bunch of drama around him. He’s boisterous sometimes, but Cas is like his calm
