If she doesn't want to see him, then her actions would be not to see him. You don't go see someone to say that you don't want to see them. You just don't see them.
This suggests that she is still totally under his control.
If, from a distance, she can't resist going to see him, then how will her will power be when they are together?
And that the MC is complicit in these arrangements, well, you want to find a new MC, pronto.
And the stuff about not wanting to hurt S - I think you nailed it. She does have a two year plan.
