C24 Caught Between Love And Duty

~~Alejandro~~

A shift in the air made me glance up.

She was there. Elena. The only person I wanted to see at this moment.

The room earlier had felt unbearable, Valentina clinging at my side with her endless reminders: Father wants us to cultivate feelings. Father expects us to be together.

She didn’t understand. I had already told her back in university—there was nothing between us