Midnight Rain. Novella
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I shouldn't like her.
Astrid is the kind of person who lights up a room just by walking into it - not because she wants to be noticed, but because she doesn't care if she is.
And yet, every time I walk into that bar, I hope she'll look at me. Just once. Like I'm not wearing this damn uniform. Like I'm not everything she's right to avoid.
She doesn't talk to officers. I respect that. Hell, I admire it. But it makes it worse that I'm
me - Kriegsmarine captain, stiff as hell, and haunted in all the wrong ways.
She smiles at everyone but me.
I don't think she hates me. If she did, I could live with that. Hate is easy. But she dodges me - like if she stares too long, she might see something in me she doesn't want to understand. And I wouldn't blame her.
Because I'm not the kind of man women like her fall for.
I'm the kind they regret trusting.
But I can't stop coming back. Can't stop sitting at the end of the bar, pretending not to notice how close her hand comes to mine when she reaches for a glass. Pretending I'm not waiting for her to say my name like it means something.
I shouldn't like her.
But I do.
And every day, it gets a little harder to pretend I don't.
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