Falling for Alisha

Chapter 2

24 lives.
24 deaths.
24 times my heart was broken.
I got used to it after the 5th or 6th life but the pain I felt after being rejected never got easier to handle.

My stories in each life were all extremely different from each other, in my 2cnd life, I was born as the king of England. In another I was an assassin, then I was a doctor, the head of a mafia gang, a teacher.... I picked up valuable skills from my occupations in past lives.

Every life I lived... I lost her.

But every life I lived.... I also got closer to her.

In my most recent life I was a secret service agent and I had finally managed to make Alisha agree to go for drinks with me. I was so close to marking her.... when it all went wrong.

A mafia gang, not unlike to the one I had led years ago, had realised that I was their leak. They locked me up in their basement and for days I was starved, dehydrated, used and beaten till I was just hanging onto life itself.

She kept me going.

Every night I would repeat her name in my head.

"Alisha, Alisha, Alisha, Alisha, Alisha, Alisha......

Then.
They captured her, i was sloppy with my work and hadn't covered my tracks well enough, they had found her photos, name and address details  in my apartment, I had neglected to hide them away.

She was murdered right infront of my eyes.

I would rather watch her leave me for another man 1 billion times than watch her have men use her and then slit her throat, laughing as blood floods out in a rush, killing her in an instant.

And just as I had whispered her name to myself during those nights I was held captive she whispered mine.
As she bled to death

And now. I'm here .
It's the year 2017 and this is my final life, this is my last chance to make her fall for me as hard as I fell for her.

I know find myself in the position of a 20 year old at shady elms university, with an abusive father, a 2 year old child in my care and no money at all.
And just as I thought it couldn't get any harder.

It did.

Because it turns out?!
Alisha is my uni proffeser, she's married to a dick head and in case it wasn't obvious...  it's highly illegal for us to have a relationship other than proffesional