Chapter 29. No One Else

       I wince in pain, but I don't fight his tight hold on me. I wanted to ask him if he was okay, I wanted to ask him if John was fine. I don't know if he had hit him again, because I was forced to leave the club and return to the limousine.

But I couldn't

    I didn't know if he would take the questions the wrong way and assume my concern for John meant more than it did. His face was impassive, his mouth set in a thin line.

      "What is he to you Aella?"

        "Nothing, I don't feel anything for him."

           "You always let people you don't feel anything for touch you like that?"

      "No" I wiped at the tears streaming down my face. "I was going to push him off me."

         "Do you want him? Are you kneeling beside me right now and hoping it was him instead."

      "No,