TRISTAN
I’d been pretending to listen to the Zoom meeting for the past half hour, but my attention had been entirely elsewhere. Stella was in the pool, the sun glinting off the water as she moved with effortless grace. It was impossible not to watch her. She radiated confidence, her laughter cutting through the hum of conversations around me.
A teammate on the call finally caught on. "Tristan, you still with us?"
I glanced back at the screen, realizing I’d missed something important. "Yeah, sorry. Got a bit distracted," I said, trying to sound casual.
"I bet you've barely taken your eyes off her since this call started." someone teased, laughter rippling through the call.
"Why is he even anywhere close to her?" Ryan asked. “Tristan has always been head over heels in love with any wom
