Dante's POV
The morning after telling Tion, I decided I needed distance.
Not because Tanya had done anything wrong or because she wasn’t worth being around but because my heart was pulling in a direction my position wouldn’t let me follow and if I didn’t create some space, I was going to cross a line I couldn’t uncross.
So, I made myself scarce.
I assigned her training supervision to Holt. I avoided lingering in the training yard when I knew she was there. I made sure I stayed away from the greenhouse when I made my rounds, even though I knew she sometimes spent her afternoons there.
I told myself it was for the best. I told myself it would work.
It didn’t.
She noticed my distance after three days.
I should have expected that …Tanya wasn’t an oblivious person, not at all. She was
