Ian My phone buzzes with messages shot at me with the speed of light. Love of my life: Surprise party at Valentine mansion tonight. Love of my life: Drop everything you are doing and get your hot a*ss here. Love of my life: We are celebrating Victor’s return. Love of my life: Mark and Grey are back in town too. I go through Veronica’s texts again and again and hate myself because my heart is starting to pound faster at the thought I am going to meet him again. All I have to do is dress up, get a gift and slide back into his life, taking the role of his sister’s best friend - ignored and unimportant for someone as grand as Victor Valentine. I don’t want to go to that house. I don’t want to meet him and pretend what I said last night is true: I don’t find it cool he left me alone in