Alle Kapitel von One Night Stand With My Future Uncle In Law : Kapitel 131 – Kapitel 140

Gabriella's POVThe elevator doors slid shut, and the quiet enclosed us like a heavy blanket. The soft, rhythmic hum of the internal machinery was the only sound in the small, metallic space. I stood with my back pressed flat against the cold metal wall, my head tilted down and my eyes fixed entirely on the polished floor. My whole body was still shaking from the confrontation upstairs. My hands were trembling violently at my sides, and my heart was pounding so hard against my ribs that I could hear the thumping sound loud and clear in my ears.Levi stood beside me in the quiet cabin. I could feel his presence distinctly—tall, solid, and radiating a steady warmth. He did not say a single word right away. He just stood there quietly in the dim light of the display panel and let the heavy silence fill the space between us.around us, the elevator descended slowly. It dropped floor by floor through the dark building shaft. The digital numbers on the wall display flickered downward in red

Gabriella's POVThe television was playing some old movie I had seen a dozen times before. On the bright screen, the lead actor was shouting at his wife in the middle of a dimly lit living room. His face was flushed bright red and his hands were shaking violently at his sides. He had just found out she was cheating on him with a man from her office. The woman was crying hard, holding her hands over her face, and trying to explain her actions. The man was not listening to a single word she said. He was far too angry. He was far too hurt to hear her excuses.I watched the dramatic scene play out without really seeing the picture or processing the words. My mind was not in the living room at all. It was stuck in the dark metallic box of that private elevator. It was stuck on the heavy, warm feel of Levi's lips pressing firmly against mine. It was stuck on the intense, protective way he had looked down at my face right before he leaned in and kissed me. And worst of all, my mind was stuck

Gabriella's POVThe walk home from the park felt so much longer than it usually did. My legs were heavy, moving stiffly over the pavement, and my chest felt completely tight, as if a weight were pressing down against my lungs. My mind was still spinning violently from everything that had happened over the past few hours. Nok's sharp, mocking words kept echoing over and over in my ears, reminding me of how foolish I looked to everyone around me. Levi's face flashed behind my eyes every time I tried to close them. I kept remembering the sudden, hot intensity of the kiss in the elevator, the focused way he had looked at me right before he leaned down, and worst of all, the terrible truth of how I had kissed him back without hesitation.I finally reached the front entrance of my home and paused right on the stone porch, my hand resting frozen on the metallic door handle. I did not want to turn the lock. I did not want to go inside and face the cold, suffocating silence of the empty house.

Gabriella's POVI did not sleep at all that night.I lay flat on my back in my bed with my eyes wide open, staring up at the dark plaster ceiling. My mind was trapped in a relentless loop, refusing to stop replaying every single event of the past twenty-four hours. I saw the image of the elevator doors shutting. I felt the sudden warmth of Levi's lips pressing hard against mine. I remembered the exact, heartbreaking expression on Mariano's face when I pulled away from his arms in the living room. I heard the low, muffled sound of his voice speaking to me through the thick wooden door, and I remembered the heavy reality that he had stayed sitting on the cold hallway floor on the other side of that door all night long.I heard him get up once in the middle of the dark hours. I heard the quiet rustle of his jacket, followed by the slow, heavy thud of his footsteps walking down the stairs. I heard him move into the living room, and then total silence returned to the house.I finally got u

Gabriella POV The university campus looked exactly the same as it always did. The tall trees in the courtyard were completely bare, their dark brown branches stretching up into the sky. The old stone administration buildings were grey and cold, and hundreds of young students were walking quickly across the concrete pathways with backpacks slung over their shoulders. But everything felt entirely different to me today. Everything felt heavier, as if a physical weight were pressing down directly onto my chest. Everything felt completely wrong.I walked through the long, central hallway of the main academic building with my head held low and both of my hands shoved deep into the front pockets of my thick coat. I did not want to stop and talk to a single person. I did not want to make eye contact with anyone walking past me. I just desperately wanted to reach my small assigned office, step inside, lock the heavy wooden door, and pretend that the outside world did not exist for a few hours