Richard continued to caress her back softly while Lisa waited for his reaction or for a reply of any sort, she was nervous as she waited because she desperately wanted to her him say something as that would determine quite a bit about him.
"I never really thought or considered it like that, you know?," he suddenly whispered and Lisa blinked, trying to understand what he was saying.
"If I had been treated like that by the people that were supposed to love and care for me, I would have taken the easy way out and settled with hating them," he told her.
Lisa still did not understand what he was getting at and she told him exactly that.
"I don't understand, what are you saying?," she asked him.
He chuckled and kissed her forehead.