Chapter 27: Different
My heart trembled as I waited for his answer. I could only picture myself in his situation- angry and betrayed.
"I don’t believe you would have betrayed me," he finally said after a brief silence.
My eyes widened. I looked at him, trying to find his reasoning from any facial expressions, but nothing revealed itself.
"Why?" I breathed out in a barely audible volume.
Christian leaned in, about to place a kiss on my lips.
"Because you’re different, Leslie."
His lips touched mine, and my heart swelled with emotions. Before I knew it, I had streams of tears running down my face.
There it was again, another first. It was the first time in my life that I heard someone say that I was different from my family. The first time I was seen as an individual and not just an entity of the Moresi family.
The feeling was so...liberating.
My tears began to flow heavily as the resentment and isolation I felt throughout my entire life began to burst through the walls I built to suppress them.
Instead of panicking or leaving, Christian hugged me tighter and allowed me to cry all of my emotions out.