The next day at the academy dragged on, slower than usual. Asher could barely sit still. His thoughts kept drifting to the hunt planned for the evening. Not just any ordinary hunt, but a hunt to increase his business, one with his family. That anticipation had him completely disengaged from the mundane lectures, classmates, and campus chatter.
He found himself counting the seconds. Tapping his foot. Doodling meaningless circles in his notebook. Even when Anna leaned close to whisper something teasing in his ear, his mind wasn't fully there. Even when his degenerated friends argued as always on the silliest topics, he couldn't partake on them. And even when Madam Sarah slightly teased and opened her thighs for him when he looked her way, he couldn't get excited.
