““You can say you want me, but I don’t think it’s true,” Ivy said. “It hurts to feel like I’m the one doing all of the caring while you do all of the walking away. I don’t want to let you go, but I’m afraid it will kill me to try and hold onto you when you don’t want to stay. “So, I want you to go,” she continued. “If you come back here, you have to be ready to be with me. Make sure that’s what you want. I can’t go through this again. I can’t be with someone I don’t trust, and if you keep walking away from me I’ll never be able to trust you.” “Ivy … .” “No,” Ivy said, cutting him off. “You have some thinking to do. You have a decision to make. I’ve already made mine. I want you, Jack, but I don’t want you walking in and out of my life whenever you feel like it. “You’re either with me or you’re not,” Ivy said, her voice firm. “Make a choice.””
