unbroken (unexpected series)

Chapter 50.5

I nodded, “But I don’t want to talk about that,” I said right off the bat surprising myself.

“Okay… what would you like to talk about?” he said resting back, one hand on his stomach, his elbow on my desk, just waiting.

Was it safe?

“You said I pushed Oakley away?”

“No, I didn’t say that, you did that. I’m just reiterating what you did verbally,” he said cocking his head to the side, his blue eyes focused on me… and while I couldn’t read the look on his face, I did not see a sneer, or coldness.

“You didn’t – you – no one seemed to mind that she wanted to be around me…” I blurted out the words not planned. My hands sweating, cold, I waited.

“That’s not a question,” he said again waiting.

I nodded, swallowing, it wasn’t a question, “Why – I mean – why?”

Taking pity on me, he nodded sighing, “You don’t seem like the type to hurt her, I don’t think you would hurt Oakley purposely,” he answered.

“But you don’t know me,” I muttered. I could hurt her; the white coats thought I would be able to hurt someone.

He nodded, finally Grant was agreeing with me, “You’re right, I don’t know you, but I do know Oakley…”

“What-” I started to ask but then I just shut my mouth.

Grant chuckled, “Oakley wouldn’t stay around someone that was hurting her, she didn’t do it back in Middleburg and I don’t think she would start doing it now,” he snorted, but that statement just made my mind go wild.

“Oakley had her own white coats back in Middleburg? She didn’t mention that… only some woman named Sarah and Amelia… no white coats.” She also didn’t have any scars on her body, I had seen her in a swimsuit and shorts, and no marks only smooth creamy skin.

“I have a few questions,” he said, and I was beginning to think that this was his favorite thing to say.

“Oakley told you about Sarah and Amelia?” I nodded hoping he wouldn’t ask me exactly what she said.

“Do you know that I asked her endlessly when we were back there, and she never opened up… she just gave up, left the house as much as she could staying away from Sarah and Amelia.” He wasn’t asking me anything but; then again, I had remembered Oakley telling me just that.

“What I’m getting at is, Oakley trusted you Kieran… she doesn’t trust easily, but she opened up her mind and feelings to you. She respected and felt safe to speak to you about something so private to her.”

I nodded, not sure where he was going with this.