Chapter 19

Her eyes slowly peered up at him and he felt like a sudden fall of a heavy weight on his chest. All at once her desperate attempt to get out of Kansas airport, her undisclosed fear which she was trying to conceal under her blabber and the hidden grief behind her smiles began to make sense. Was she in an abusive relationship? His hands unknowingly began to turn to fists. "Not the way you are thinking it to be." She suddenly answered and he breathed out an air of relief but the answer left him with more questions that he wanted to ask her. She was doing it again. Fidgeting with her fingers. "What happened?" He walked closer to her. She snickered and shook her head but this time her eyes were telling a different story. In fact giving it all. His mind was whirling to dangerous scenarios while she ran her hand in her hair. And he noticed how silky they were. His fingers itched to touch them. But ignoring the lascivious sensation, he asked her. "It was recent. Wasn't it?" "What?" She sta