ALINA'S POV
I swallowed a lot of saliva while low key trying to calm myself the f**k down. The emotions twirling around in my head must have reflected on my face, my stance, the way I tried to slip out of his orbit. The pressure was suffocating.
I was pretty sure that he could read off my unease like an open book, just by looking at me.
Breathe, I muttered under my breath, making sure that he didn't hear that.
If the little that I knew of Gomes was true, then he could sniff out fear from more than a mile away. He was going to sense it, then he was going to utilize it to his own advantage, in a classic Gomes villain style.
These, among a thousand more were the sole reason that I had to get a grip, especially around him. Especially now that I was still in his orbit, his domain.
The dev
