Chapter 23 Its Not That Easy

• “No. If someone who wants to hurt us knows what she means to me then that puts in more danger. And what the next time I might not be so lucky. You all saw her. She barely made it out alive. Is she thinks I care. And says something in front of the wrong person. That’s it. I can’t risk her life because I care about her. She’s better off not knowing.”
• But Mark clearly doesn’t agree and stands up next to Grant like there on each others side. “And how do you think that’ll end up for her? You think that won’t hurt her in the end? I’m guarantee you. Without a doubt that woman will have feeling for you if she doesn’t already. And what then. You’re just going to pretend you feel nothing towards her? Do you know how much that will hurt her? It will! Take it from me. That’s what I thought was best with my wife. And I hurt her. Because she fell in love with me and I told her I felt nothing. When I did. And I watched as her expression turn dark and painful. I watched as I broke her with my words. Mere words. And it took time to fix it. But fuck if it wasn’t worth it all. I regret hurting her. I regret putting her through the thought that I felt nothing for her when I did. Because I do love her. And I hurt her by telling her otherwise. And I didn’t matter if it was a lie. She believed me. And it hurt me way more to see how it hurt her like that. When i thought it was better that way. But it wasn’t. We can find better ways to protect our woman then lying about how we truly feel about them.”
• But before I can’t say anything the doors swing open and turn around.