<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #80FF80">Carlos Delgado</span></span></span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/75418b36-82bd-4b2f-bdff-d44eb7e2deaf_zpsb78abdde.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Carlos had avoided to look at Lea, so that she wouldn't see how much her words had hurt him. But somehow the looking away didn't help too, as she noticed that he avoided her.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">“You’re not very good at hiding your emotions—and it doesn’t feel too good when I know you are purposefully not looking at me. It’s as if you are disgusted by just looking at me…and maybe that’s true, but it still doesn’t feel too great…”</span><br/><br/>He had to fight back a short moment of anger coming up, as she always understood him wrong, but it was as quickly gone as it had come.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"I am not disgusted a looking at you, Lea. I avoided your eyes, so that you didn't see how hurt I was. I had not offered you the job out of pity, Lea. I had offered it, because you were the only one who ever respected me for what I was...a police officer and a mexican guy. I enjoyed working with you and looking at it now, I would say we had been a perfect team. Almost too perfect, but we both were a lot better when we worked together, than when we worked on our own. We kind of added the missing part of the other one and we never had problems with one being dominant in our work. It was good working and if I quit the police then I would really like to work with you again. Because you are good, Lea. Even if you may believe now that it is all lost. It isn't, you are still a good investigator and you still have your strengths. I want you at my side when I work as a PI, not as the sidekick, but as a full partner. It would make me better and yes, it would give your life another purpose again, than to make some horny men happy. But it is only the additional benefit, my reason for offering was, that you are one of the best."</span><br/><br/>He had to stop the car at a red light and he finally looked over to Lea. She may have doubted his words, but he was pretty sure that she could read his eyes. And his eyes would tell her that what he just said was his absolute belief.</div>