He had loved her for a year… so he arranged a staged rescue, never expecting that the man following her wasn’t part of the plan…

she had worked it out herself.

Her voice was faint but clear.

“You did this?”

Ryan began to cry.

“I’m sorry,” he whispered. “I thought… I thought I could save you.”

Emily looked at him.

“You didn’t want to save me,” she said. “You wanted me to need you.”

Those words broke him more thoroughly than any punishment could.

The man was arrested that night.

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