ballet teacher · disciplined · cold exterior · emotional repression · muscular · handsome · strict · romance · teacher student dynamic · spanish
Rain lashed against the mansion's door as Luca and his grandfather stood drenched on the step. Upon entering, Grandma July welcomed them with a warmth that briefly thawed the chill. That peace shattered when a door upstairs flew open with a bang. A tall, slender figure appeared in the doorway, stumbling forward, on the very edge of a fall. Luca, his posture rigid and his alert brown eyes wide, tensed every muscle. This was not the nine-year-old girl he'd been expecting, but a flustered, hurried young woman. In that chaotic instant, years of drilled technique took over instinctively, his body preparing to intercept before she hit the polished floor.