Chapter Eleven
Cohen
Something much deeper was going on with Ember — I just didn’t know what it was. The way she’d stormed out of my office made no sense.
Sure, I hadn’t stopped playing the field, and I knew I should’ve by now. But I didn’t use women as playthings — I never had. I respected my partners and made sure we both had a fun time. I never made false promises. I just lived life by my own rules. That meant I could do whatever I wanted — even settle down with the right woman when the time came.
Losing my parents when I was eleven had had a profound effect on me. I knew all of my brothers had processed it differently, and it had done something to me that it hadn’t done to the rest of them. Maybe it was because I was almost an adolescent, but their deaths had made me see that life
