I didn't think anything in life could harm me like that anymore. I was too long in the tooth not to have dealt with just about everything life could throw at me, or so I thought. Except, I couldn't have been more wrong. Watching her lost and afraid, like a little kitten alone in the world, was enough to make me break. I didn't know what had gotten into me, but she stole every bit of self control I had. She always did. It was like I had nothing in my brain but thoughts of her the second she got close to me. She would never understand the control she had over me. It was like I was no longer a sole person, but one forever linked to her. Everything that she felt echoed through me and I just couldn't take it. Seeing her like that had made me desperate to do anything to limit the pain she was in

