Chapter 14: Shame In Elevator

|| Arabella || Even though I ran as fast as I could, it turns out that my short legs would never be able to outrun Theo's long ones. After not even three minutes, he caught up with me. I was going to holler out some meaningless apologies when he tugged me by my wrist and yanked me backward, making my chest collide with his. 'Now, where will you go, Annabelle?" He locked both of his arms around me. Our chests were flushed together, while I panted from my short run. Why was I running again? 'So what? What will you do to me? You won't hit a girl now, would you?" I instigated. I kept my head tilted back as far as possible to not have his hot, distracting breath fall on me. Just then I felt my left cheek being stretched. 'But I can do this." He pulled my cheek even more as I winced. 'This doesn't count as abuse, does it?" 'But I didn't abuse you—" 'That would have been better, but you chose to embarrass me in front of all those people," he said, squeezing my body tighter as if it wa