Althea looked at Nicholas with eyes blooming full of hope and her heart thumping loudly, pumped with enthrall, wondering what Nicholas would answer, just after she had asked a very important question from him.
“Can you please stay with me, tonight?”
Nicholas’s eyebrows rose for a minute, as he wondered what should be his answer.
Of course, any guy would’ve jumped right in to the puddle, the moment any girl, at a vulnerable stage, segregated by fear and empathy, would be an easy target to make when it would come down to stripping her and relaxing by toying with her body but it was not what Nicholas simply aimed to do.
He aimed to make her feel comfortable in his presence and perhaps, that point was reached by him and that’s why, when she asked for him to stay, he realized that he had su
