His To Possess
“That doesn’t look like someone who doesn’t need anything.”
He finally looked at her then. Not with anger or being defensive... just tired. “You don’t get it,” he muttered.
“Then make me get it,” she replied.
His throat worked slightly, like he was swallowing something heavier than pride.
“They always leave,” he said, almost to himself. “Or they choose someone else. Or they decide I’m too much," he continued, the words didn’t sound like a Capo. They sounded like a boy. A little boy who had been deprived of love, of care, of the warmth that should have been his, and who had learned too early to fight the world alone. Calla’s chest tightened.