Oscar:
The moment I stepped out of the shower and looked at myself in the mirror, I knew exactly where I wanted to be. Not pacing around like a lovesick fool, not waiting for the "right time" to show her how much she meant to me... but with her.
Eva.
Even the thought of her name stirred something deep within me. It wasn't the wild heat of the mate bond alone, though that fire never really died. No, this was something different. Stronger. Deeper.
It was the way her eyes softened when she was thinking, the way her shoulders held a strength she didn't even realize she had. She was fierce and compassionate, unafraid and yet so damn vulnerable it made my heart ache.
With every passing day, I was falling harder. And it wasn't just because the universe decided we were fated. It was because she was everything I never thought I would find in someone. Brave, stubborn, resilient, kind. She was a contradiction of softness and steel that kept pulling me in.
