Why was this happening to her? What was this fire in her chest that only deepened and magnified whenever she was close to this man? What was she supposed to do with these tsunamis of emotions raging inside her?
“I know you’re scared,” he said, shocking her yet again with how true he sounded in the moment, how honest. “I cannot even imagine how scary this must be for you…”
“No, you don’t. You don’t know anything.” She tried not to give away the fact that a few tears had indeed escaped from her eyes, but her voice had shaken, and she knew he would be quick to catch on to that.
He didn’t try to prove her wrong, though, and that oddly made her feel a little better.
“Look, Dhara, if hurting you was my intention, I had far too many chances in the past to do that. But I didn’t. I couldn’t. Be
