"Are you sure you don't want to drink some water?" Big Ben paused his work on his laptop and focused on Bianca.
"No, I don't want water. What is water going to do? Change the fact I can't keep my daughter safe so she has to rely on the benevolence of the man who practically called her a whore?"
"Uhmm, he didn't say it exactly that way though, did he?"
She rolled her eyes hard. "If he ever truly cared about my daughter, he wouldn't have used that filthy word. He would have shut that shit down immediately it was brought up. Can you imagine Allen ever talking to me in that way? Would you have ever spoken about Jenny in that way?"
Big Ben sighed as he shut down the laptop and set it aside.
"I'm sorry B."
Her face contorted. "Why? What did you do?"
"The question is what haven't I done? And that's fulfilling my obligations to Allen. I'm the one that's supposed to protect Bug."
