ERIC’S POV

“No… no… no…” I firmly disagreed with her, shaking my head. As I moved away from her, the room was so small that there wasn’t enough space to put any real distance between us. “You shouldn’t have brought that up knowing the answer I’ll give. There is no way I’m letting you come with me even if you ask a thousand times.”

“But why?” She asked in that indignant tone, like I was depriving her of something she was entitled to. “When you get angry, you… you harm people,” she forced the word from her throat like she didn’t want to say it. “I don’t want you to...