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“Why don’t you just break up with him? Why are you with that guy?” Ed’s nostrils flared and glared at her.

“It’s not that easy,” Emily mumbled, biting her lip.

“Of course it is. Don’t you want to be with me, Em? Don’t answer that, because I know. I know you want to be with me. You showed me,” He crowed. “But I’m not going to go any further with you. I’m done until you’re mine. Do you understand that?” Ed bristled and his face hardened.

A tear rolled down Emily’s cheek. She did know that. Despite the two incidents that had happened between them, Ed was not the kind of guy to be a party to cheating, no matter the form. A hoarse cry of frustration formed in her throat. She swallowed it. She’d thrown her own moral code out for…what? Hormones? One last desperate chance for…