Chapter 22 Learning To Move On

EMBER's POV

" I don't want to get anything from any car, Ember. I came out here to be with you," he said adamantly, and I bit my lower lip.

"Well, that's dumb," I said quietly. The past weeks stretched out between us. The lawyer's letters, the letter rendering them void, the public statement on the internet. All of that, and I hadn't said anything to him. Now he was here, and I didn't really know what to say to him.

"me coming out here to be with you is dumb, but you being on a date with a stranger isn't?"

Rowan was no longer a stranger to me. But I wasn't about to explain any of that to him.

"You shouldn't be out here with me when you have a woman waiting for you inside, Paris," I explained in simpler terms, and he shook his head,

"Is this why you won't come back to me? Because of this new man?"

"Excuse me?"