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"You don’t have to stay here," she told hi in a chair, pulled up next to a bed, facing the TV Tate was stretched out on the bed, staring at the ceiling She could see hied

"I know that I would like to stay," he replied

"To the bitter end?" she laughed

"To the bitter end"

"You can’t take me to the airport, I probably wouldn’t be able to stop crying long enough to find my plane," she joked

"Then I should definitely take you"

"Sandy," she warned

"There is tio back Time to fix this," he assured her, his eyes trained on the TV It was on o," Tate told him He shook his head

"No He’s upset, but he would forgive you He is very forgiving," he said

"I don’t want to be forgiven I shouldn’t need to be, for feeling a certain way There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be with someone It’s horrible, and it’s sad, and it hurts – but it’s not wrong," she explained

"It is when it’s all a lie, though, and you’re doing it just to hurt somebody," Sanders pointed out She frowned

"You think that’s why I’ this? Just to hurt him? Sandy, he’d have to have a heart, first, before I could hurt it," she snapped

"He has a heart He has shown it to me many times You, however, have been purposefully blind to it"

Ouch, okay, that kinda hurts

"It was alwaysHe said that a dozen times, maybe a hundred times He just wanted me for sex, I was only supposed to be sex to him, just sex, sex, sex Do you understand how thather head back to look at him

He had taken off his jacket, and his ar up his tie She earing her underwear and a loose tank top Nor wear for the pair

"You wanted that relationship as well, in the beginning You changed it, and he went along with it It was never entirely about sohed

"Sandy, there was nothing ridiculous about the sex Jameson and I had," she snickered He frowned

"I shall take your word for it"

"That’s another thing that sucks about this whole situation," she said, looking back up at the ceiling

"What?"

"Sex I think he’s kinda ruined me for other men"