I was going insane. Jade Lawson approached me and asked me out on a date. Mark Lawson intended to kill me because of it.
I tried not to think about Mark, but he kept coming up in conversations. It's difficult to get away from him. Mark seemed to have harmed me. We'd shared some difficult times together. I'm not blind to the fact that we never kissed. Almost-kisses are taken into account. The almost-romantic exchanges are significant.
There's no getting away from us, and I'll defend you until you don't need me anymore. If he could say them and then say we barely know each other like he did to me yesterday, those lines were falsehoods.
He didn't even bother to respond to my feelings when I expressed them to him the day before; instead, he simply greeted Janet and asked her into his hom
