Colin
I watched Van and Serissa leave the gym with a slight pang of jealousy in my heart. It was a feeling I was unfamiliar with and I didn't care for it at all. There was just something about her I couldn't quite put my finger on. Something alluring.
When I'd seen her the morning before, standing in the gutter with blood running down her leg and covered in muddy water, I'd told myself I would've offered to help any woman in a similar situation. But bringing her into the office? Still, even in the state she was in, I had to admire the way she held herself. Shock was there, of course, as well as a sort of hopelessness. She looked like a woman that had been kicked one too many times and was trying to decide if it was worth getting up again. Despite it all, though, she looked... regal. Not
