diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 28ec8cc..e653f69 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -9,5 +9,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1
 	github.com/jessevdk/go-flags v1.4.0
 	github.com/nkovacs/streamquote v1.0.0
+	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.6.1
 	github.com/valyala/fasttemplate v1.0.1
 )
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 513cc3a..1aadb50 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -4,13 +4,22 @@ github.com/akavel/rsrc v0.8.0 h1:zjWn7ukO9Kc5Q62DOJCcxGpXC18RawVtYAGdz2aLlfw=
 github.com/akavel/rsrc v0.8.0/go.mod h1:uLoCtb9J+EyAqh+26kdrTgmzRBFPGOolLWKpdxkKq+c=
 github.com/daaku/go.zipexe v1.0.0 h1:VSOgZtH418pH9L16hC/JrgSNJbbAL26pj7lmD1+CGdY=
 github.com/daaku/go.zipexe v1.0.0/go.mod h1:z8IiR6TsVLEYKwXAoE/I+8ys/sDkgTzSL0CLnGVd57E=
+github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.0/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 h1:vj9j/u1bqnvCEfJOwUhtlOARqs3+rkHYY13jYWTU97c=
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
 github.com/jessevdk/go-flags v1.4.0 h1:4IU2WS7AumrZ/40jfhf4QVDMsQwqA7VEHozFRrGARJA=
 github.com/jessevdk/go-flags v1.4.0/go.mod h1:4FA24M0QyGHXBuZZK/XkWh8h0e1EYbRYJSGM75WSRxI=
 github.com/nkovacs/streamquote v1.0.0 h1:PmVIV08Zlx2lZK5fFZlMZ04eHcDTIFJCv/5/0twVUow=
 github.com/nkovacs/streamquote v1.0.0/go.mod h1:BN+NaZ2CmdKqUuTUXUEm9j95B2TRbpOWpxbJYzzgUsc=
+github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 h1:4DBwDE0NGyQoBHbLQYPwSUPoCMWR5BEzIk/f1lZbAQM=
+github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0/go.mod h1:iKH77koFhYxTK1pcRnkKkqfTogsbg7gZNVY4sRDYZ/4=
+github.com/stretchr/objx v0.1.0/go.mod h1:HFkY916IF+rwdDfMAkV7OtwuqBVzrE8GR6GFx+wExME=
+github.com/stretchr/testify v1.6.1 h1:hDPOHmpOpP40lSULcqw7IrRb/u7w6RpDC9399XyoNd0=
+github.com/stretchr/testify v1.6.1/go.mod h1:6Fq8oRcR53rry900zMqJjRRixrwX3KX962/h/Wwjteg=
 github.com/valyala/bytebufferpool v1.0.0 h1:GqA5TC/0021Y/b9FG4Oi9Mr3q7XYx6KllzawFIhcdPw=
 github.com/valyala/bytebufferpool v1.0.0/go.mod h1:6bBcMArwyJ5K/AmCkWv1jt77kVWyCJ6HpOuEn7z0Csc=
 github.com/valyala/fasttemplate v1.0.1 h1:tY9CJiPnMXf1ERmG2EyK7gNUd+c6RKGD0IfU8WdUSz8=
 github.com/valyala/fasttemplate v1.0.1/go.mod h1:UQGH1tvbgY+Nz5t2n7tXsz52dQxojPUpymEIMZ47gx8=
+gopkg.in/check.v1 v0.0.0-20161208181325-20d25e280405/go.mod h1:Co6ibVJAznAaIkqp8huTwlJQCZ016jof/cbN4VW5Yz0=
+gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200313102051-9f266ea9e77c h1:dUUwHk2QECo/6vqA44rthZ8ie2QXMNeKRTHCNY2nXvo=
+gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200313102051-9f266ea9e77c/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=
diff --git a/testdata/test.txt b/testdata/test.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b12464
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testdata/test.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+TEST
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/virtual.go b/virtual.go
index b175849..d01ef4f 100644
--- a/virtual.go
+++ b/virtual.go
@@ -88,13 +88,14 @@ func (vf *virtualFile) read(bts []byte) (int, error) {
 		}
 	}
 
+	if vf.offset == int64(len(vf.Content)) {
+		return 0, io.EOF
+	}
+
 	end := vf.offset + int64(len(bts))
 
 	if end >= int64(len(vf.Content)) {
-		// end of file, so return what we have + EOF
-		n := copy(bts, vf.Content[vf.offset:])
-		vf.offset = 0
-		return n, io.EOF
+		end = int64(len(vf.Content))
 	}
 
 	n := copy(bts, vf.Content[vf.offset:end])
diff --git a/virtual_test.go b/virtual_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..891f34c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/virtual_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package rice
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice/embedded"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+func TestVirtualFileRead(t *testing.T) {
+	// define virtual file
+	data, err := ioutil.ReadFile("testdata/test.txt")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	virtFile := newVirtualFile(&embedded.EmbeddedFile{
+		Filename:    "test.txt",
+		FileModTime: time.Unix(1594051142, 0),
+		Content:     string(data),
+	})
+
+	realFile, err := os.Open("testdata/test.txt")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	checkRead := func(buff []byte) {
+		// Compare results with a real *os.File
+		realN, realErr := realFile.Read(buff)
+		real := fmt.Sprintf("n=%v err=%v buff=%v", realN, realErr, buff)
+		virtN, virtErr := virtFile.read(buff)
+		virt := fmt.Sprintf("n=%v err=%v buff=%v", virtN, virtErr, buff)
+		require.Equal(t, real, virt)
+	}
+
+	buff := make([]byte, 4)
+	checkRead(buff)
+	checkRead(buff)
+	checkRead(buff)
+}