Mara’s POV
My breath caught the second I saw what was in front of me.
The room was dim, lit only by the lamp on the side table. Shadows moved on the walls. The bed creaked softly. Bodies shifted. Skin flashed in and out of the light.
Professor Hayes was on the bed with another woman.
He was lost in it. Completely unaware of me standing at the door. His focus was on her. On the moment. On everything he had shut me out of earlier that day.
I should have felt angry.
I should have stormed out.
I should have cried.
Instead, something inside my chest snapped loose.
My heart raced, but not in pain. In shock. In heat. In something I did not want to name.
I didn’t speak.
I didn’t move.
I just stood there and watched.
The woman’s hands were in his hair. His voice was low, rough, nothing
