Love's Redemption (Chris and Maddie)

Chapter 68

Brandon quickly walked over to me. He looked at me with a casual, open gaze and said, "Let's go."

What?

Wasn't he going to explain why he wanted to stay in a room so close to mine?

I was going to ask him, but I felt like asking would only make things weirder.

"Mr. Howell, why are you so close to our room?" Kara asked. Sometimes her straightforwardness came as a good thing because she could ask what I was too nervous to.

He walked to the elevator and pressed the button. I saw his room card with the number "308" on it. That was the room next to mine.

"For convenience," he said simply.

Convenient for what?

It was easy to misunderstand his answer

Kara was confused as well. She looked at me and then looked at him and

asked, "Mr. Howell, what sort of convenience are you talking about?*

I wanted to smash her bead in. Why was she asking so many questions?

us to see our reflections. I looked at Brandon through

anything, but he looked

glance. "For anything,"

fell silent and so

tugged at the corner

like Brandon had finally managed to shut her

elevator reached the third floor soon enough, so we walked out and went to our respective rooms. Before we entered, Kara said excitedly to Brandon," Mr. Howell, feel free to call

up to? What sort of ideas is he getting to want to stay so close

was surprised she would even think about protecting herself after letting

even though those thoughts would be able to stop her from being so obsessed with him, I didn't want it to affect her work. I

blinked. "How do you

straightforward when she reminded me yet again of how curious she was. I decided to keep my mouth shut around Kara from then

guessed. I could be wrong, of course. You're free to test that theory out," I said

I?

the sofa, so I picked up a pillow

I entered the room, put my suitcase down, and entered

stepped into the shower. I suddenly remembered

that was streaked with a purple mark right where I had run into the edge of the appliance. I was already quite pale, so the

remember Brandon suddenly

in my head for a second. I squeezed my eyes shut and

Kara called out, "Maddie, your phone is

the shower head