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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?”

suddenly looked

do you not care what I say at all, or are

seconds before it clicked. “Oh, right. I

So do you have an

head. “I

decided, or that you’ve already made up your mind

words cut straight into

She couldn’t reject Tyler–not yet. After

felt nothing for him wouldn’t be true. The time they had spent together, and the things she had learned about the

as deciding whether to be with him

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goals to accomplish. If she really stayed in

had already made plans for her career. Tyler’s presence felt like a stumbling block in her path, even though that sounded

end, Rachel

until you’re 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.”

avoid this forever. Sooner or later, she would have to

answer. He wasn’t someone who could be