CHAPTER 35 | Ellie
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Caleb misses the morning staff meeting, texting Sam and me about a meeting in Atlanta. It’s not a lie. He’d mentioned the meeting with another local breeder before we fought, but my heart still sags a bit when I walk into the tack room and he isn’t there.
You should be grateful you’re done, I tell myself. You want more with Caleb, and it would only end in disaster.
Well, perhaps ‘disaster’ is a touch melodramatic. He would eventually treat me like a three-year-old kid, and after getting royally pissed off, I would act like one. There was one bright side to all of it: If being with James taught me to stand up for myself then being with Caleb has taught me I’m a relationship girl. I want the real deal.
“That’s why we date,” Holly said after I told he
