429 Lost Time

"How can you say that?" Ariana whispered. "What?" Cayden asked as he finally let Ariana go from his embrace. "How can you just say that no one else matter? Didn't everyone love you? Take care of you? Treat you like family?" Ariana asked as she rolled to her aide and faced Cayden. Cayden let out a small chuckle. "But they weren't you."

"Of course they weren't! Everyone is a different person who-?!" Ariana started to protest but the look Cayden gave her made her stop talking instantly. He wasn't upset for her arguing, in fact he looked at her lovingly as if he was expecting her to argue over the choices he made. "I love you." He said as he smiled at her.