Chapter 6

“It probably wasn’t a choice, Emma, just a coincidence. Someone or anyone that happened to throw themselves at him because that’s how much he was hurting; how irrational he was being… There was no attraction in it.” She raises her hands almost in exasperation and meets my furious scowl.

How are you so sure, Sarah, because I don’t even know!?

“If he loved me, then he wouldn’t have so cruelly kissed

her

.” I spit, her stance unmoving, arms folded across her chest as though dealing with a petulant child. Her voice is steady and stern, with a look in her eye that belongs to a schoolmistress.

“If he didn’t love you, then he wouldn’t have done anything at all, Emma. He stupidly did it because he was in an incredible amount of heartache. You hurt each other. He only found out later that you were bluffing about the other guy, but you still rejected him.” She walks forward, sliding beside me, regarding me, pleading, and takes my hands gently, but I turn my face