"You don't have to say it back, I'm not pressuring you," she said and averted her eyes from his.
"I like you Cassie I always have, I just don't know if I love you," he said to her. She smiled up at him and
hope shone in her eyes.
"I can live with that," she replied contently as she rested her face on his shoulder. Anthony looked around at the writhing women on the floor and stood holding Cassie to him. She wrapped her legs and arms around him and he carried her to her room. Laying her down on the bed Anthony crawled in beside her and pulled her back to his front. He kissed her neck and then settled down to sleep.
"I love you," was the last words Anthony heard as he drifted off into the blackness of sleep.
Anthony woke to an empty bed and the smell of frying bacon. Getting up he looked
