Arella
NEEDING a few seconds to myself, I took a deep breath. The last thing I wanted was to see Skipper on my doorsteps with a pitying look on his face. He was the reason why I got fired in the first place. If he didn’t show up to the lab, I still had a job right now. Truthfully though, it wasn’t completely his fault because I could’ve just pushed him away, but I didn’t. I missed him.
My heart was pounding against my chest from the way he looked at me, but the pity I expected wasn’t there. Whatever he had on his sleeves it didn’t matter to me anymore. There was a part of me that still trusted him. But he kept insisting something about the proposition.
When Clyve left the room, it felt suddenly small to us. Not to mention how he made me felt last Saturday, then left me aching— tor
