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Chapters 46–50 Merge Conflicts

Chapters 46–50 Merge Conflicts

Choices, sacrifice, broken trust, failed collaboration

Chapter 48

Message

How Dating Apps Change Human Connection

They were sitting opposite each other in the same spot they had sat the last time they met.

He was waiting for her when she entered the room and he looked noticeably nervous.

She was dressed in fashionable clothes that exuded womanhood more than girlhood.

It only made him more nervous.

“So?” he asked.

She looked at him and took him in.

Some decisions were tougher than others.

Some decisions required sacrifice.

She took his hand and words were superfluous.

He exhaled.

“I understand that we should talk and I will listen whenever you wish.

Now.

Then.”

“Good.”

“But that’s one thing.”

“Yes?”

“Your experiment.”

“What’s wrong with that?”

“You can’t keep this up.

Not if you’re serious about it being us again.”

He managed to turn her big decision against her, but at the same time she had foreseen this.

Continuing to date guys when she was in a stable relationship was not something she would have accepted.

This had been in all her thoughts about the decision.

She could save her professional career.

She would have an almost perfect grade from many years of study and Fredric had said he would help her.

She could take another job for so long.

With his network it wouldn’t be difficult.

Financially they could rely on his salary and perhaps they had to anyway considering that art rarely paid off in the beginning.

Her future didn’t depend on a few measly weeks of study.

“I understand that and I respect that.

Don’t worry.

I’m canceling the project now.”

But PlayNDate was more than an idea.

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