Altea was late. She’d forgotten the time when she was in the library researching her project, and now she had to run to the campus of the University of Bozen to get to her last lecture of the day on time. Passing another student, she took the turn too quickly and ran straight into another guy, almost landing on her ass, but she managed to catch herself just before she fell. Her books weren’t as lucky, and they opened up while falling to the ground, papers flying around her.
“Oh no no no,” she mumbled as she bent down to collect them. “Sorry, I didn’t see you,” she told the guy she ran into, who kneeled down next to her and helped her get her stuff.
“Don’t worry about it. Are you ok?”
She looked up at him and narrowed her eyes.
“Do I know you?”
He was tall, with short, light brown ha
