Unfinished Business

Zara

I know my face had already turned pink before I could even try to school my expression. The question was still hanging in the air and I was still standing there, feeling things I did not want to be feeling, when he said it.

"Let me help you."

And then, before I could even form a response, he lifted me like I was nothing, like picking up a whole human being was something people just did in the