Beauty and the Professor (A Modern Fairy Tale Duet 1)
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He had to make the sever complete.
“We talked about this,” she said, her voice wavery. “You didn’t force me to do anything. And I stopped working for you. Isn’t that enough? That should be enough.”
“I know I didn’t mean to force you. And I know you didn’t feel forced, but that doesn’t change the fact that I was your employer at the time. That I became your professor. I should know more than anyone that the ends don’t justify the means.”
“Blake, don’t do this to us. It’s just a little bit longer.”
“And maybe then…” He forced himself to stop, not to give her false hope, not to sway her decision in any way. She needed to be free to graduate without a barrier, to choose her path without taking him into account. If she found her way back to him he would be grateful beyond reason, he would fall down at her feet, but he could not ask her to stay.
It took a strength of will he wasn’t sure he had to pull away from the bed and walk to the closet. To pull on a pair of sweatpants as if that could negate what they’d just done. “No, not even then, Erin. You have your whole life ahead of you. That life doesn’t include me.”
It felt like stepping on an IED all over again, the shock to his system, the physical pain the bloomed across his body. The blinding reality that nothing would ever be the same.
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