chapter 15
"Anyway, why are you here? I thought you were scared of me now." It s a half-joke, half-real question because it s been playing on my mind since the first couple of hours they locked me in this lifeless room, to listen to the house being mended and boarded up. It s also my attempt to bring us back from the intimacy that is now making me uncomfortable as I push a little more space between us. I don t even have a cell phone to keep me occupied as I have no friends and the orphanage wouldn t pay for them.
"Hmm. Haha. Actually, it s sort of about that. Why I m here, I mean. About earlier and your moment of whatever the hell that was." Colton s face turns serious, those pretty eyes under black eyebrows that are way too nice, turning back to mine, and I can almost hear the gear switch off his brain as he focuses his mind on that topic. All tenderness fades away.