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“I don’t know,” I whisper, shaking my head and she leans forward, grabbing her phone out of my hand.

“Well, I do.” She starts typing out a message and my eyes widen as I lunge for the phone but she dodges me.

“What the hell are you doing?”

She bolts out of her chair and runs into the studio, calling out over her shoulder, “Pushing you out of your comfort zone!”

“Eden!” I scream as I run after her, my stomach flipping as I imagine seeing him again. “Please don’t do this!”

She skids to a stop and turns to face me. “You really don’t want me to?”

“I really don’t,” I assure her, shaking my head as my heart thunders in my chest. There is so much crap between Wyatt and me at this point that I don’t even know what I would say to him. What could I say? I lied to him and betrayed him and Wyatt is not the type of man to forgive so easily.

“Okay… on one condition.”

I take a deep breath, trying to get my nerves under control. “What?”

“You let me find you a different cute guy and set up a date.”

“Eden…” I say, shaking my head and she holds her phone up, arching a brow in challenge as a smile tugs at her lips.

“It’s either that or I set up a date for you with Wyatt.”

Turning, I march back into the office and sink into my chair, trying to ignore the ultimatum she just threw down at my feet.

“Which one is it going to be?”

“How about neither?” I growl, moving the mouse to wake up my computer as she stands behind me. In the reflection on the screen, I watch her as she crosses her arms over her chest and fixes me with a look.

“You have to pick one. I’m not going to stand by and watch you waste your life away and not going after what you want because you’re too damn scared.”

I spin around to face her and level a glare in her direction, opening my mouth to fire back a retort but she holds her hand up to stop me.

“Save it. We both know that’s the real reason you don’t want to make a decision and what kind of friend would I be if I allowed you to wallow in your fear?”

“A good one,” I grumble, glancing away from her.

“Uh, no. A terrible one. So, pick your poison, Pippy. Am I messaging Wyatt? Or are we looking for a new guy for you?”

Turning back to her, I sigh. There is no way in hell she’s going to let me off the hook, this I’m sure of so it’s better to just get it over with. “Let’s look at guys, I guess.”

“Excellent,” she chirps with a grin as she grabs her chair and pulls it closer to mine so I can see her phone’s screen as she starts flicking through photos of men on the site. My stomach rolls as the possibility of going on a date with one of them crashes down on me.

Oh, God, I’m going to be sick…