#Chapter 140: The Professor’s Warning

Dominic POV Dominic watches Aurora from across the living room, jaw tight, hands buried in his pockets because if he doesn’t restrain them, he’ll march across the room, pick her up, and lock her somewhere safe where he can see her. Instinct yanks at him like a physical tug. Keep her close, keep her protected, keep her where the world can’t touch her. It’s irrational, possessive, territorial in a way that would embarrass him if he weren’t already drowning in it. But then she looks up at him, her eyes soft, steady, full of a quiet strength that she doesn’t even realize she has, and the tension in his chest cracks with acceptance. She deserves space. She deserves trust. And he knows that if he cages her now, even out of love, he’ll crush something forming inside her. Her confidence and her ability to choose for herself are things that have never been allowed to flourish before. He needs her to know that, to him, she’s more than a pawn on someone else’s boa