41: Ben

CHRISTY:

I must keep my distance around him or I will be crying in the end. For the nth time. Whenever I loved someone, it was I who always cried whenever we broke up.

This man…if he kept on doing this, I should never be blamed if I fall for him.

And if you truly fell for this man, what would happen to you? No one loved you for real, Christina. All they cared about was what you could offer to them in return and that was it.

I wanted my heart to rest even for a bit.

“Touch me and you are dead,” I threatened.

He grinned from ear to ear. “Please don’t kill me, kitten. I have a lot of things to do. A lot will cry when I die.”

Lucky him while I? No one would shed tears for me when I left this world. It was only Poppy and Kelly and their baby.

“This feels like a date,” I commented all of a sudden without thinking about it and it was already too late when I realized what I just said.

My cheeks flamed and I just wanted to hide under the table.

Everette gave me his signature warming smil