"Oliver, if I could be with you, I mean really be with you, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now, I swear to you. The things you make me feel... god help me, no other guy has ever, and the idea of that is ripping me to pieces."
"Yeah, I can see that. You're all broken up inside, I can tell."
"Don't do this. You have no idea what I have been going through since you came back. There were literally weeks where I couldn't get myself out of bed because of you, because of what you make me feel. For god's sake, I am cheating on my soon-to-be husband because I am finding it impossible to stay away from you. Don't you see what you mean to me?"
Ellie's jealousy sprang to mind as Oliver tried to conjure a solution that might overturn this evil sentence. "So if I started dating..."
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