Ch. 146

After a few minutes of awkward silence, I finally spoke.

"Are guardians and their charges always so close?" I asked, not looking at them.

"Yes. We're in charge of keeping them safe from the moment they turn 1. We stay close to them. Being physically away from them is painful for us." Evelyn explained.

Well damn. Knowing she feels the need to touch him made my jealousy worse.

He's not Toni. He's not Toni.

I kept repeating that mantra to myself the entire time he sat beside me. He shifted on the couch stretching his arms out over the back of the couch. His fingertips were so close to my left shoulder now. If he stretched his fingers out they would graze my skin. My heart sped in my chest. The hairs on my shoulder were standing on end, almost calling for his fingers to touch them.

My sweet Dex is in the kitchen making me food and I'm sitting here hoping Sam's fingers just lightly graze my shoulder. I need to move. I need to get away. I won't do this to him. I leaned to my right a l