The door clicked shut behind Rhiannon, and for a long second I just… stared at it.
Then I dropped my forehead onto the nearest countertop with a dull thud.
"That woman," I muttered into the stainless steel. "Is going to drive me absolutely insane."
It wasn't dramatic. It was a clinical observation.
My heart was still doing that ridiculous fluttery thing it had started ever since the cave, my mouth still tingled faintly from kissing her, and my brain was a scrambled egg of unprofessional thoughts.
I straightened with a sigh, rubbing a hand over my face. "Okay. Focus. You are a responsible adult with a job and a spine. You can think about something other than your dangerously attractive, technically-a-student girlfriend."
The room was empty now, just me and the ghost of drakroot fumes. The chaos had faded into a soft hum of distant voices in the hallway.
