SOPHIA’S POV
The moment my eyes met Damien’s across the crowded gym, I felt everything inside me halt at once - my wolf, my breath, even the words forming on my tongue. It felt as if the entire room tilted a bit.
I had to force myself to become steady before the children around me noticed that their school nurse suddenly felt like she had been yanked out of her own body.
I hadn’t expected him.
He looked the same. Tall, handsome and powerful.
His eyes stayed on me too long, and I hated that my chest tightened with a strange rush of heat that I immediately forced down.
I looked away quickly, trying to pretend nothing inside me reacted, but the pull of his aura affected me.
When the children began clapping for him on stage, their cheers brought me back to reality.
I
