“You’ve never needed anyone to fight your battles, Catalina. That’s one of the things I respect the most about you.” His words did something to my chest. Something that created a kind of pressure I wasn’t comfortable with. Aaron never said stuff like that. Not to anyone and particularly not to me. I opened my mouth to tell him that it didn’t matter, that I didn’t care, that we could just drop it, but he held up a hand, stopping me.”
