Chapter 17: Pest
May 27, Thursday
Clay liked to follow me around the city. I could never leave the Tudor without having him in my footsteps. His behavior didn’t surprise me since a day didn’t go by when he became bored with me. I couldn’t count how many times the guy mysteriously appeared behind me at the grocery store, my favorite bookstores, and personal appointments with doctors. Clay Hildebrand became my shadow ever since the day I dumped him. In retrospect, some men hated to be broken up with at the end of a relationship. Clay just happened to be one of those men: still into me, disbelieving that we were no longer a couple, and annoyed that I wanted nothing to do with him.
Before my all-day extravaganza of classes at Castling College, I agreed to meet Clay at one of my favorite cof
