The clock ticks once. Twice. He does not move. He does not speak. He is a statue of want dressed in a cardigan.
Mira smiled—slow, deliberate. “By what?” tempted tutor freeze
He’d tutored a hundred students before her. But when she solved the problem and looked at him like that? Tempted tutor freeze. ❄️📚 The clock ticks once
The chalk stops mid-slope. Equation unfinished. She tilts her head— innocent, or not. tempted tutor freeze
He exhaled. The marker dropped. And for one endless second, the tempted tutor didn’t move at all—caught between everything he should do and everything he suddenly wanted.
Then he stood up. “Session’s over.”