Semua Bab Secret Vixen He Fell For Twice : Bab 11 - Bab 13

Zara’s PovHe was already too close when I turned around.I hadn’t heard him move. One moment there was distance between us and the next there wasn’t just Adrian in the narrow space between the dressing room corridor and the back exit, one hand flat against the wall beside my head, not touching me, not threatening me, just present. Immovable. The specific closeness of a man who had decided the usual rules of distance no longer applied.The bass from the main floor moved through the walls like a pulse.“You weren’t going to tell me you were here tonight,” he said.Not a question.“I work here,” I said. Pinky’s voice. Low, unbothered, completely assembled. “I don’t announce my shifts.”“You saw me arrive.”“I see a lot of people arrive.”His eyes moved across my face with that slow, surgical attention that had been quietly taking me apart for weeks. The amber light from the corridor caught the line of his jaw, the steadiness of him, the particular quality of stillness that meant he wa

Zara’s POV The campus café was the one place I allowed myself to breathe.No performance required. No mask to maintain. Just Zara with a lukewarm coffee and a textbook she was actually reading and forty minutes before her next class where nothing was required of her except to exist quietly.I had been sitting there eleven minutes when the chair across from me scraped back.Adrian sat down.Not asking. Not hesitating. Just there, suddenly, with a coffee of his own and the particular ease of a man who had decided his presence was already welcome.My stomach dropped clean to the floor.*Why is he here? Did he follow me? How does he know my schedule? What does he“You look surprised,” he said.“I am surprised.” I kept my voice even. “This is my campus.”“Kofi asked me to drop something off at the admin building.” He set his coffee down. Relaxed. Almost casual. “Saw you through the window.”Almost casual.Because his eyes were doing what they always did, that slow, patient inventory that