Chapter 125 Fourteen: Blake

• "Hey." When the doors close, I turn toward her and take her face in my hands. "I'm not angry with you. I'm angry at your father for making you feel this way. For making you think that you have to hide who you are, or that the second you care for something it's going to disappear. Because that's not love, sweet girl." I kiss her gently before I look into her eyes and see tears forming. "Please don't cry. I'll kill him if I see your tears."
• "It's just...there's so much I want to explain and say to you—" Just then the doors open to my floor, and there's a lobby full of people already staring at us. "Um, maybe in your office."
• I want to tell her that everyone in this building can go fuck themselves, because what she has to say is more important. But I also know that she's shy with her feelings, and that's because her father is a dick and used her emotions against her.