Rise Of The Betrayed Omega
He is in a dark jacket — fitted, nothing elaborate — with a white shirt underneath open at the collar, and dark trousers, and he moves the way he always moves.
He hasn't seen me yet.
Which means I have approximately four seconds of looking at him without having to manage my face while doing it.
He is — and I acknowledge this the way you acknowledge an inconvenient fact, clinically, without dwelling — extraordinarily good looking today. The kind of good looking that sits quietly on a person and doesn't announce itself, which somehow makes it worse.
My heart, despite everything, lifts slightly at the edges.
'Goddess. Look at him. He is hot even without trying.' Piper sighs dreamily.