Say Please

Vance

“No.” She said.

I paused and looked up at her, one eyebrow raised. The word had come out shaky and uncertain at the edges in a way that told me everything I needed to know about how much she actually meant it.

"Why not?"

She opened her mouth but her breathing had already betrayed her, nothing came out. Her chest was rising and falling faster than she probably wanted it to with the slight tre