David Cherno... — bold, dangerous, and frighteningly attractive. The kind of person you ought to stay away from, but I had bad luck: in a new university he noticed me from day one. I moved away from my hometown to hide from old pain and start over, but it seems I turned the wrong way again.***
— And what did you lose here, good girl? — a voice comes from the dark corridor, the kind that can scare truants and disobedient children.
— It’s none of your business, — I answer, trying to sound firm and hoping to remain unnoticed.
— You’re wrong, Lya, — he steps out of the shadow into the light, and I realize I’m truly terrified.
— Everything that has to do with you concerns me directly.