“Rhea, get inside! I can’t look at you right now, and I surely can’t leave you alone here and walk away, so step back inside the cabin and stay in there,” Aron warned Rhea in a low growl.
He had never spoken to her so sternly before, so she did not know how to handle it. Her initial response was to defy him, but she could sense that the man was hurting. She remembered the time when they were trapped amidst snow, how he held her close to his chest, how he begged her to not die and she could not bring herself to fight with the man knowing that he was hurting, especially, when she was somehow the cause for his pain. Hence, for the first time in her life, Rhea accepted defeat in an argument and resigned into the cabin.
Her eyes welled up the moment she shut the door behind her and she rushe
