The next morning, Ariel refused to leave her room till Raymond left for work. It was clear that something happened when he stopped himself from going further and he wondered if that was what she was mad about.
He didn't want to touch her not because he saw her as filth or anything of that sort but rather because he was afraid that she wasn't yet healed. The way she looked so frightened when he reached out for her still haunted him so he didn't want to make that same mistake.
His negligence to her condition that time made her tremble so he was not confident that he would be able to handle breaking her with that same negligence.
It was already three months since then but he couldn't be so sure. But if that was what she was mad about then, he wondered what he would do.
"Steve, Ariel's mad at me." Raymond said to Steve over the phone.
"How come? Did you make a mistake?" Steve asked him.
