"I want to love. I want to feel safe in your arms. I want to let my guard down. I need to be happ-"
"Then why don't you?" Gianni shouted hurt and broken by the woman in front of him.
"What if you hurt me like Mark and Oscar did?" Anya asked as she stared at this man, a man she knew deep down that she loved, a man she knew she was too good to her.
"I'd never hurt, let alone do what those two pigs did to you! You don't understand what you do to me Anya. I love you beyond words, I've loved you from the first time I saw you. When you came into my office asking for a job and handing me your resume I knew you was special. I love you Anya, but I love myself enough to know that I can't do this." Gianni cried out in pain as he held Anya's face in his big hands.
Crying too he wiped her tears with his thumb. Letting go off her face he held her chin with his index and gently kissed her lips.
"Goodbye Anya."
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Anya Jones is a rape survivor who is often busted by the demons of her past. Unable to get through it by herself she finds comfort in the arms of her boss, Gianni De'Luca.
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