contract.”
His response arrived almost immediately.
He insisted that she had misunderstood him. He said he was simply trying to establish boundaries and that she was making the situation unnecessarily hostile.
Then he asked her to apologize.
Emily didn’t.
Instead, she saved the emails, blocked his number, and removed him from her social media.
She had no interest in spending another minute debating whether a bouquet of roses created a financial obligation.
That evening, she met Sarah for coffee and told her what had happened.
“I keep thinking about how
