Wills Waltson wanted to touch her since he saw her in such distress.

She did, however, take a cautious step back.

He glanced at her with concern in his eyes.

The barricade she had created in her heart, which was going to be seized by him, had been set up entirely by her.

"Please do not touch me. Wills Waltson, if that's all you care about, please, please, please don't care about me in the future. What I don't want is for someone to make all of my decisions for me in the name of love. What I want is to be treated with dignity, as if I were a...