She couldn't stare longer. Eloise never thought she could feel like she was drowning when she's obviously not in the ocean or pool, but even when she looked away, his eyes were like magnets pulling her back.
She wants something as beautiful as those eyes to capture the image of her, only her.
‘ No,’ her heart skipped, and she quickly looked away, but the closeness, the heat, was not helping.
‘ What's he doing?’ she asked in her mind, looking back into his eyes again.
They bore into her, towering in a perfect, terrifying silence.
He didn't speak, rather, he stepped even closer, causing her breath to hitch, and her heart started racing as the space shrank, leaving barely a sliver of air between them.
Eloise tried to move away from the heated space but his arms caged her in, one hand re
