Chapter 272 Through Thick And Thin

• “Perhaps you may want to give me better explanations. What do you have with rod Benson that makes him flinch into action when he hears you are in trouble? Are you dating him or something is going on between the two of you?”
• I dared to open my mouth to speak up and defend myself but I felt a styrene force shut my lips. This had not happened to me before. I wondered why I was finding it uneasy to deny having anything to do with Rod Benson. Rod had only demanded that we become best of friends and that was all and would definitely not exceed friendship.
• I shook my head in denial, “I have nothing with Rod Benson. He … he,” I stuttered and said in a breath, “Rod is just my friend and that is all . I can’t date or marry him. Brian is more than…”