Then so be it.

Tyler would find out sooner or later. If he didn’t ask, Rachel wouldn’t say anything. But if he did, she’d just have to find another way to deal with it.

After the two of them sat down, Tyler grabbed some food for Rachel. “Eat a little more.”

Rachel looked at the food on her plate, and suddenly her heart raced. They say a guilty conscience shows through–this must be what it felt like.

It was such an ordinary gesture, but because she had just called Jerry and said all those things, she was

worried Tyler might have overheard.

Tyler was best at reading people. He was like a cat with a mouse–it didn’t have to eat right away.

Instead, it would toy with its prey, make it suffer, and only kill it after the torment had broken it down.

Just the thought of that made Rachel shiver.

It was frightening.

Still, she wasn’t foolish enough to expose herself outright.

She picked at her food without much appetite, while Tyler calmly ate his fish.

He asked her, “About what I told you earlier today–have you thought it through?”

looked

“Rachel, do you not care what I say at all, or

a few seconds before it clicked. “Oh,

you

shook her head. “I haven’t decided yet.”

that you really haven’t decided, or that you’ve already made up your mind

cut straight

expression stiffened. She couldn’t reject Tyler–not yet.

him wouldn’t be true. The time they had spent together, and the things she had learned about the past, had

as deciding whether to be with

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still hadn’t finished her work elsewhere. She had her own goals to accomplish. If she really stayed in Yurelia

plans for her career. Tyler’s presence felt like a stumbling block in her

the end, Rachel chose a

back from your business trip? Once you return, I promise I’ll give

definite answer.”

Tyler didn’t press her.

“If you say so.”

“Great.”

that she couldn’t avoid this forever.

answer. He wasn’t someone who

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