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I wanted to tell him to stay away from me, but I didn’t He’d do whatever he wanted

As he turned his back on hmore in that moment then to crawl under the blanket and stay there, but there was one thing I needed from this man so I quelled what little pride I had left and called his name

Chapter Three

Cain

“Cain”

I stopped at the sound of h I didn’t want to

I was still reeling from the discovery of how badly I’d wanted to comfort theraped and what that admission had cost him

I didn’t comfort people I just didn’t I did my job and nowhere in my job description did it require me to make someone feel better I was here to keep the ure out the next steps I’d asked about the rape because I’d needed to know if his injuries were any kind of potential problem, not because I wanted to tell him how sorry I was that that had happened to him or that if I ever came face to face with thehead clean off his fucking body

Even if that was exactly what I wanted to do

Even now, it took everything in e coiled deep inside me And that was only because I’d seen how Ethan had reacted to the sight of my fisted hand earlier

“Yeah?” I ed to say