“Are you finished?”
“Huh?” I asked, raising my head to look at Gabriel, who was sitting on the other side of the desk. Instead of hunched over his papers, I found him sitting back in his chair, one arm draped on the back of the seat. He was watching me with a smile that sent shivers down my spine and made me painfully aware of every little tug and tingle happening in my body. I looked down at the last task he had given me, only to realize it was all carefully arranged in a pile with the pen I had been using resting on top of it. I wasn’t sure when exactly I had finished it, we had been stuck in this room for a while now and it took more mental energy to keep myself calm and focused than to do the work. “Um, yes, I am.” I finally said, picking up the papers and offering them to him. He
