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?

shiny enough for us to see our reflections. I looked at Brandon through

avoiding anything,

quick glance. "For anything,"

silent and so did

tugged at

Brandon had finally managed

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 me if you need anything!" "Okay,"

I walked in, Kara approached me and asked, "What's Mr. Howell getting up to? What sort of ideas is he getting to want to stay so close to us? What if he's secretly a pervert under that handsome

would even think about protecting herself after

would be able to stop her from being so obsessed with him, I didn't want it to affect her work. I cut her off

"How do

curious she was. I decided to keep my mouth shut around Kara from then onwards, or I would

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

eyes gleamed. "Can I? I wouldn't mind,

sofa, so I picked up a pillow and

the room, put my suitcase down, and

into the shower. I suddenly remembered something a few minutes into my shower

was streaked with a purple mark right where I had run into the edge

couldn't help but remember Brandon suddenly grabbing me to stop my

second. I squeezed my eyes shut and forced myself not

called out, "Maddie,

the shower head off. "Who