I was so wrong when I'd assumed sex with Ellie wasn't going to be meaningless... It was. It was hot and exciting, but at its core, it was just a means to an end for her. She liked to have sex—a lot of it. She'd never hid that fact from me. If I were no longer in the picture, she'd probably go back to getting off with randoms.

And the idea of her reverting to her routine of picking up girl after girl made me absolutely sick to my stomach. The thought of her with anyone else but me twisted me in knots. So, even if I lost a part...