Emily thought about the message she had just received. Ethan said he would wait for her decision.

Suddenly, Emily remembered the words she had spoken to him the day before, telling him to show his actions and look forward to it—essentially rejecting him. She wondered if Ethan actually thought she was testing him.

She thought, ‘So, he withdrew the elite team to show me that he is distancing himself from Chelsea?’

But with Ethan’s position, even if he cut ties with ...