Not one, all the way home. I thought that would make him suffer, but no. Because he didn’t say one word, either, and the silence was killing me.When Sam pulled the car up to the door and hopped around to let us out onto the wet paving, Danny turned. “It’s late. I’ll see you in the morning.” And he walked right in that front door, leaving me standing there with Sam and my wide-open mouth.“May I get you anything, miss?”“No, Sam, thanks.” I hoped that over the soft splashing of the fountain behind us he wouldn’t hear the sob that caught in my throat.Later I lay in the dark, wide-awake in my own room, alone, for hours.Once upon a time there was this poor young Irish girl who met a handsome prince who swept her off her feet. But when the Irish girl grew older, the prince’s roving eye began to light elsewhere…until a new young girl arrived to steal the prince’s heart.I took out my diamond bracelet, the one thing he didn’t make me lock up, and snapped it on my wrist there in the dark room, the light from outside sneaking in and making those diamonds flash like a million suns.
