Chapter 26

He shrugged emptily. “She can’t get over it. She thinks she needs me; Maybe she does.” He slid off the bed, releasing Rose and leaving her feeling cold and rejected as he went to stand in the room and started fixing his clothes. Pulling the fluffy cushion into her stomach to cuddle away the sudden shivers running through her, she watched him as he began to pace the room.

“She’s struggling right now. She has issues. We were together for a while, on and off, but she can’t accept that we’re done, and to be honest, she isn’t exactly in the frame of mind right now for me to push it.” He looked towards Rose, and try as she might tell herself he was lying, she found she believed him. Relieved that here he was, telling her that Morag was not his girlfriend. Somehow it made her feel less shameful.

“So, she believes your together, and you’re letting her think it?… Are you sleeping with her?” She knew She had to ask. Once and for all. After being kissed that way and getting to the