Shawn Taylor’s POV:
‘She is my teacher.’ I huff through gritted teeth. Keep calm! Keep calm! Keep calm! He is just trying to get on your nerves. Don’t let him win. Do not let him see through you, Shawn.
It is not as much a lie either. Skanda really is my teacher–a darn good one at her job. We just happen to hit it different from the start. However, neither of us knew we were going to bump into each other the night it had happened.
Not that it would have changed anything anyway. I like Skanda deeply. It’s as much clear that she reciprocates the feelings and that it is the end of it.
If things like to suck, let them suck.
I tell myself, chanting it like a mantra in my head. I cannot let myself loose. This is the deadliest I’d be doing to myself in front of the jury. I ball my fist t
