Claire’s Pov
The days after the drilling training session with Darien passed in a strange haze of tension. It wasn’t the kind that you could easily push away without giving it a singular thought at least for a short moment wrapped around me, saturating the air whenever he was near, making it hard for me to breathe properly, talk more if thinking clearly.
I could feel it in the way he looked at me, the weight of his gaze lingering on me just a little too long than normal. I caught him watching me in real times like a spy, those sharp eyes of his always observing my every move.
What unnerved me the most was the fact that he wasn’t pushing anything between us anymore. After our conversation at the end of the training when I told him I wasn’t ready, he seemed to have taken a step back wit
