Chapter Seventeen
Cohen
The disturbing way Ember had acted at the pizza place dampened my mood. I couldn’t focus on anything, so I went home. After a long shower meant to cleanse away some of the pain, I still felt horrible.
I pushed too hard — that’s gotta be it.
As much as it didn’t feel like the right thing to do, I had to back off. At least for a while. I couldn’t explain the way she had acted that way other than that I’d put too much pressure on her.
I may have only dated Ember for a week back then, but I’d known her for a little over a year before that. And she’d never acted like this back then. From her reactions, it seemed like this was new for her too.
At only seven in the evening, I got into bed. I’d never been so out of sorts in my life. Even after my parents had died. At
