Atlas Black

Chapter 20

L L A N A M O R O Z O V A

After the library encounter I don't see Sas the entire day. I'm not sure where disappeared too but I'm mad at her for leaving for me to get through this day on my own.

Not to mention she owes me big time for setting me up for whatever shit I'm about to get from Professor Douglas. Fuck, it totally slipped my mind and now my plans of getting out of campus quickly is now smothered into smithereens.

I'm a bit disheveled after todays events and I've been trying to keep lowkey throughout the day and hope that I don't encounter or see Aiden again. My senses and thoughts have been fucked up because of him.

Nothing but the scrawl of the words MINE have been implanted on my inside wrist and in my head on a loop throughout the entirety of this day.

It's got me thinking and interpreting that one word in multiple different ways, each time coming to zero conclusions. I groan. This man was in on my head. Messing with my head and my insides.

Now throughout this entire day, between classes and breaks I can't stop thinking about him being pressed up against my back. Him pressing close to me ear, our body inches apart. His eyes unraveling me. His breath lingering on my ears, skin, everywhere on my body.

It's hard trying to forget about him and every time I do my thoughts always circle back to that moment and him. It lives within me, unable to leave me the fuck alone.

Even through the thick hatred I feel for him, I'm sitting in last period zoning in out and whilst having a pencil between my teeth, swivelling it back and forth between my fingers whilst I lay a hand on one of my cheeks staring straight ahead whilst my mind is elsewhere.

He's like a disease I'm not able to get rid of. Because each thought brings me back to that point where I think of where it would've headed if it weren't for the interruption.

"-Miss Morozova." My head snaps up in attention. I quick examine that I'm still in Law class.

"Yes?" I actually don't know what the fuck the professor just said.

"Can you elaborate on the answer our fellow student just thoroughly explained."

"I'm sorry, Mr Reid. I don't know." He frowns, disappointed and unimpressed with me but he doesn't say anything as he moves on asking someone else.

I take the pencil out of my mouth, observing the chewed and bitten top part I have nibbled at making visible the wood beneath.

Tapping my fingers against my laptop restlessly, I sit waiting for time to move closer to the end of the day. As the bell rings I begin to get up taking my bag with me but not before Mr Reid appoints me to stay behind. I groan.

"You're staying here, Llana." And I'm left alone in the lecture hall as everyone leaves including Mr Reid when Professor Douglas appears, seating herself.

"I'm disappointed in you, Llana. You're lacking in paying and attention and producing assignments on time. I have no other choice to grade you below what you're capable of if you don't start putting in the effort." She eyes me skeptically between lenses and I almost given in to the urge of eye rolling.

"For that I have decided to switch your partner for the upcoming assignment. You will now be working with Mr Grey." My breath halts.