Chapter 115: Falling For Her
Oscar:
The moment I stepped out of the shower and looked at myself in the mirror, I knew exactly where I wanted to be. Not pacing around like a lovesick fool, not waiting for the "right time" to show her how much she meant to me... but with her.
Eva.
Even the thought of her name stirred something deep within me. It wasn’t the wild heat of the mate bond alone, though that fire never really died. No, this was something different. Stronger. Deeper.
It was the way her eyes softened when she was thinking, the way her shoulders held a strength she didn’t even realize she had. She was fierce and compassionate, unafraid and yet so damn vulnerable it made my heart ache.
With every passing day, I was falling harder. And it wasn’t just because the universe decided we were fated. It was because she was everything I never thought I would find in someone. Brave, stubborn, resilient, kind. She was a contradiction of softness and steel that kept pulling me in.
I hadn’t planned to fall in love with her. But I was. Hard and fast.
I made my way to her room. My each step was heavy with the anticipation that I could finally have a moment with her alone. Not as the instructor. Not as someone she should avoid or resist. But as a man in love... with every intention of earning her trust, her heart, and maybe, one day, her forever.
I knocked once, softly, then again, louder. And when she opened the door, I found myself looking at her in nothing but a bathrobe. Her cheeks were flushed from the shower, hair was damp and falling around her face. And I forgot every ounce of restraint I was trying to build over the past few days.
Beautiful didn’t even begin to describe her.
Without a word, I quickly slipped inside the room, not wanting anyone to notice us like this. The last thing I wanted was for her to be the center of attention at the Academy because she got tangled up with me.