13 - Eva.

An awkward silence fills the car, underlined by the engine’s roar as Principal Byrne drives toward the academy. He shouldn’t have been the one to help me dress in the hospital, as it’s inappropriate.

My body tingles from the way his fingers delicately skated across my skin. It was as if he was working to turn me into a molten pool of desire, even if that probably wasn’t his intention.

I can still sense that sexually charged tension now, but I can’t work out if it is from my side or whether it’s just wishful thinking. Principal Byrne is the most attractive man I’ve ever met, but I’m also high on pain meds.

There’s no way a man like him would be attracted to me, especially since I’m his student, a student whose parents sent here because I allegedly slept with the janitor at my last school. He might assume I’m a hussy who will sleep with anyone, and perhaps he’s testing the waters. It wouldn’t shock me, as this school isn’t conventional.

Principal Byrne keeps his eyes on the road with su