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For fifteen years, I was Luke Sterling's "almost fiancée." Then I watched him kiss my roommate, Susie Quinn. One drunken night, he held me and said, "Let's be together." I said yes, hoping to finally give my years of longing an answer. Then I overheard him on the phone, bragging: "The ice queen melted. Best feeling in the world." In that moment, I finally saw the truth. Fifteen years of habit wasn't love. It's just his comfort zone—something he couldn't bear to lose. This time, I left first.