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I pulled my hand away and hid it behind my back. I said coldly, “That’s because you weren’t the one who got betrayed. You didn’t get hurt, so of course you think anything’s possible.

“But let me ask you–if I really slept with Ryan, would you ever take me back?”

Jared’s eyes flickered with shock. He demanded, “Did you really sleep with him?”

shook my head and sneered, “See? I was just making a point, and you’re already pissed. You can’t even stand the

idea, so don’t stand there telling me to be the bigger person.”

Jared said, “I know you’re lying to me. But you don’t have to lower yourself like this.”

“He’s younger than you, and better looking. If anything, I’m the one coming out ahead–how is that degrading myself?” I retorted with a sneer.

Jared gritted his teeth, clearly at a loss for what to do with me.

I said coolly, “I’m hungry. I’m going to get some breakfast. Just go.”

Jared said, “I’m not leaving.” He then suddenly pulled me into a fierce hug, burying his face in my hair. He muttered, “Victoria, come back to me, please?”

“I’m not coming back, Jared. Clinging like this is beneath you,” I reminded him.

Jared froze, but then he said, “What good is my status if I don’t have you?”

couldn’t help but laugh at how desperate he was. Jared, always so proud, was acting like a total simp. I said, “Jared, have

away and added, “Your family will never accept

as if he’d just been slapped back into

the sake of family harmony, go marry someone your mom approves of.” With that, I turned away before he could say

didn’t try to stop me. Maybe he finally realized that love might be just between two people, but marriage was never just about two people–it was

throw caution to the wind and go against his family just for me. Men were always more practical–they always thought

needed to learn to be just as

to me, worry written

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you here?” I asked as I closed the

I’d bring you some breakfast,” Ryan

go downstairs and grab

said, “I know, but I just wanted to do

him, and he ducked his

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brim with feeling. Sometimes

and it never worked out well

some water and fix Ryan a cup of

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