Starlet shook her head in denial. And Eden laughed.
"He does not love you!" she said with unchecked pleasure.
"He does," Star said but she had been having her doubts she could never remember the time he had said he loved her. Not even once.
"Has he ever said it?" Eden asked as if she read Star's mind and she smiled with mock sympathy.
"Why are you forcing yourself on a man who doesn't love you?" Eden's hard eyes locked with Star's dead ones.
"To be honest, sometimes I wonder if you love him or a version of him in your head."
Star's head jerked up and she drew in a breath to object but Eden cut her off.
"If you loved him, you would respect who he loved and not trap him in this farce with you."
Eden moved closer to Star and then said in a lower voice, she was whispering at this point,
