I hear a car door slam and pry myself away from the warm embrace of Gio. My whole body is shaking. Seeing Theo here had been the last thing I had expected. What had made him think he was okay to turn up here? I don’t know where I had found the courage to say the things I did either, but I was eternally grateful now that Gio had been the pain in the ass that he can be and had got in my car with me at the offices, because had I come home on my own to be greeted by Theo I truly do not know what would have happened.
I had used the fact Gio was there as my strength, knowing that Theo would not do anything to me with a witness. And I also had assumed it would be likely that Gio would step in to defend me too, if needed. When he mentioned calling the police and for a small moment I saw a sliver
