Chapter 103

Shantelle’s POV

I couldn’t stop thinking about the fact that Mama and Papa could just come inside my room and see him sitting so comfortably on my bed. This was going to go down in history. Papa might not say anything, but Mama would have a lot to say. Still, I couldn’t just let him go after what had just happened to him.

He needed to rest because he did all the work, and he didn’t even apologize for the fact that he didn’t console me after what happened to me at school. I wouldn’t have pegged him, for now, as someone who would want people to know that something was going on between us.

That was fine, because I didn’t even want to think about it anymore. I just wanted him to try and get himself together, and I needed the calm that comes from bathing.

I would have wanted us to have a repeated experience, but he didn’t look like he was up to it. I sat down at my vanity table. I needed to think. Looking at him was going to keep me distracted and, to be ve