Charlotte Sanguinite POV:
I don’t like depending on others or leaning on people for support. It’s a habit formed out of necessity. But Robert is like a force of nature, taking charge of the entire situation, taking care of me.
It’s been a long time since someone took care of me, and I don’t know what to do about it.
My desire to push Robert away keeps getting weaker and weaker as he barges his way into my life like a bulldozer, crushing the shields I erected around me for my own self-preservation. Perhaps the breaking point for me was when he held me in his arms, telling me that if anything had happened to me, he would have looked after Mano.
It’s foolish, but those words pierced my heart, and now I can’t look at him the same way.
It frightens me how safe I find his arms and how reass
