Raphael kept trying to protect Alice no matter what he was told. He would be damned if he let her get hurt by some scumbag that could just walk in from the street and snatch her up like she was nothing more than a pretty flower. He couldn’t stand the thought of her getting hurt by someone that would try to take advantage of her.

He wouldn’t be able to live with himself if something happened to her, because that person didn’t deserve her in the least. If anything ever happened to her, Raphael wasn’t sure he could forgive himself.

It seemed like every time he thought about it, there...