Chapter 14 An Act Of Tenderness

• “God, Yvette, what was that?” I groaned as I tried to sit up, my shoulders hurt, everywhere felt heavy, even my butt hurt because I had come crashing down quickly because of that panic attack. Instead of thinking of how to get painkillers, I was fantasizing about Joachim's blue eyes and his lips when he came up close to me. Soon, I was smiling sheepishly and had to stop when I remembered the bottomless loneliness in his eyes. Someone must have wronged him or broke his heart.
• And what he said, about forgetting what it felt like to be scared? I mean, who forgets that? A crack in the armor, for sure. One I never, ever expected to see.
• After that we just stayed there. On the cold floor. I thought he was proud and arrogant, cold and selfish but the man who stayed with me till my heart stopped hammering wasn't the Joachim Knight I know.