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won’t allow him to be around any of them because I can’t bear for him or our father to hurt them. I had to sell our house to pay for the Shrines that’s where we put my mom in and I sold my car so we could move here. We have no money, are staying in a hotel and school is about to start. I just don’t know what to do now. And to top it off I am sitting here rambling on to a complete stranger.” Christian stared at her for a moment.
    “First you need to take a breath. Calm down everything will be alright.”
    She did what he asked as he slid back down that wall and took a seat then patted the space next to him.
    “Now take a seat.”
    Scarlett looked at him and sighed as she did what he asked again.
    “I know things look grim but it’s when the clouds come and the storm is overhead that a rainbow is in the horizon.” She gave him a sarcastic smirk.
    “Really?”
    “What?”
    “Are you trying to run game on me or something because no grown man I know goes around talking about rainbows in the horizon?” Christian held up his hands.
    “ No I’m not. Sorry my mom says that to me when I am going through it and it helps so I thought it might help you.”
    “Oh well thank you. And I do know that when the going gets tough a blessing is on the way. I have faith I just, everything is just weighing down on me, and it has been bad for so long and I do pray and fast but look at me. I broke down in an elevator with some man I just met.”
    “Ok first I am not some man and well from what I see you have kept this inside for a while I’d rather you broke down in front of me than somewhere else.”
    Scarlett smiled up to this man who seemed to come to her just when she needed him. As Christian wiped a fallen tear from her left eye, he couldn’t help but feel for her. He had fought the urge to hold her since she walked into the elevator. Now he couldn’t fight it any longer, he had to hold her. He pulled her to him and hugged her. She wrapped her arms around him and cried harder. He held her tight and honestly didn’t want to let her go. He wanted to help her and he knew exactly how he could.
    “Scarlett.”
    “I am so sorry for breaking down like that.” She said her face still buried in his chest. She felt so safe and secure and didn’t want to leave his firm body.
    “It's no problem. I think I can help you.”
    “You don’t have to.”
    “I believe everything happens for a reason and meeting you is one of those things. It just so happens I am the Vice president of Waters Empire.”
    “Waters Empire?”
    “Yeah not my choice for the name, that falls to my dad and mom.”
    She looked straight ahead wondering how this man’s wife or girlfriend would feel if she knew Scarlett was resting her head on his him. “How old are you?”
    “29. Why?”
    “You just don’t look like you’re that old.”
    “Well are you really 27?”
    “Yes. And breaking down like a school girl.”
    “Everyone breaks down its normal. And crying cleanses the soul.”
    “You are a really sweet guy.”
    “Sweet is the new rough neck I thought you knew!”
    Scarlett started to laugh at him and he shook his head.
    “Sorry girls like the big strong tough rough neck kind of guy so.”
    “I will take sweet over rough and tough any day, trust me.”
    “Well that is me I like to think my parents raised me well.”
    She relaxed a little bit in his arms. He kicked his long legs in front of him as she laid her head on his shoulder.
    “I have to admit. It feels good to cry when you have a shoulder to cry on. To be able to let it all out. I can’t do it at home because once I start I won’t stop.”
    “So tell me about your family.”
    “You really want to know?”
    “I wouldn’t ask if I didn’t.” he said looking down to her.
    Her face lit up as she smiled. Christian realized in that moment her smile did something to him.
    “Well Devon is 17 and is really talented. He dominates the court I guess they say. He’s a really smart kid