Coming here sprouting on about love and feelings.
I grab the tiramisu I whipped up out of the fridge and three bowls, and return to the table.
“Do you think he’s going to wake up for dessert?” I ask, unsure what else to say.
She shakes her head. “He looks pretty out of it.”
“Watch this,” I say, spooning a large helping into a bowl and then placing it just under his nose.
His eyes twitch and then he sniffs, and then he sits up bolt upright, eyes wide.
Camilla laughs.
“What happened?”
“You fell asleep, I say.” Signaling to the bowl of dessert. “The tiramisu woke you up. Want some?”
He grabs it greedily off of me. “You don’t even need to ask.”
We both laugh together as he devours it like a pig who hasn’t eaten for days. And a comfortable silence falls over the table, making me thankful that the awkward tension has been relived between Camilla and I.
There’s no way I’m ready to work out what the fuck is happening between us.
I need to remember to kick Archer’s ass tomorrow morning when he’s sober. The night isn’t going the way I planned at all.
30
CAMILLA
Time is ticking away so fast it feels like it’s goading me.
There’s only two weeks until graduation, which means two weeks until I say goodbye to Gavril forever.
Any pain that he’s inflicted on me is nothing compared to the heart-wrenching pain at the mere thought of never seeing him again.
It feels like he’s my other half, as if he completes me. Even if he’s always insisted this is only sex, I find it hard to believe he doesn’t feel it too.
Or maybe I’m just a naïve virgin who did get too attached to the man who took my innocence away. The emptiness that his absence will leave is too much to think about.
I glance up from my work to find him staring right at me, an inferno burning in his eyes.
My cheeks heat and I glance back down at my essay when the bell rings.
Butterflies flutter to life in my stomach every single time I know I’m going to be alone with him.
My sadistic and twisted Gavril.
The things he’s done to me most people would be disgusted by and yet I want to explore more with him. I want to delve into the darkness and never come out.
This man could either be my salvation or my destruction, it just depends how it all ends.
Mia asked me how it was going with him when I went back to Chicago for her wedding a few weeks ago, and I couldn’t talk about it.
My dreams could be fulfilled or smashed depending on how he feels for me, and I’m too scared to find out yet.
I take my time packing my bag until I’m the last one in the classroom, and that’s when I meet Gavril’s intense gaze.
“You are adorable when you get embarrassed about me staring at you. Did you know that?”