Green-Eyed Monster (private)

Since her visit from Mr. Ford and Mr. Jones things had been slightly off in Nikhila’s little world. Her dreams, which were often restless, were slightly more violent. She was more cautious when alone or when at the lab, but most of all she was more aware of Xeph.

It wasn’t as though she hadn’t known he was here in Nachton, in fact it had been he who’d invited her here. But they’d managed to keep things distant and professional. She’d gone out of her way to ensure that. But being held for those few seconds, that one soft kiss, was making her face some very vivid memories as well as facing the present, maybe even the future.

She might have been able to eventually re-shelf these thoughts and feelings but he seemed to be every where. Of course he was every where he was the Alpha, that was his job. Maybe if she hadn’t dreamed of her attack in the mountains the night before she wouldn’t have noticed or reacted the way she did.

It started in the morning. She was coming back from a run sweaty and dirty (it had been a very long run) and there he was in the soft morning light smiling at a lovely blonde woman. He seemed to be giving directions. Directions to where, she wondered. That sounded almost jealous, she realized with a start. That wasn’t like her, she had no right she decided as she returned to her rooms to clean up and start the day.

A few hours later as she was leaving her office for a class she passed by his office. Xeph was out in the hall. It appeared he was going over the finer points of an assignment but with the same blonde. Nikhila frowned darkly for a second. The woman was even lovelier at close glance. Blonde, blue eyed, curvatious but not overly endowed and still trim, quite unlike her own long and lean build. Those blue eyes also had a slightly sweetly smitten look in them, at least she saw it. She refused to look and see if Xeph saw it, or was taken in by it. Instead she hurried on to her own class.

Lunch brought no reprieve. Sitting outside, it was a lovely day after all, her attention was wrested from the papers she was reading to Xeph, yet again. And yet again he was with an attractive young woman. At least this time it was a red head. She might have started to suspect something if it was the blonde again. Not, she reminded herself, that she had any right to suspect anything. She watched has he helped her gather up some papers she’d dropped. Did he really have to smile at her so much? Nikhila couldn’t take any more and returned to her office.

Late in the evening she had to run down to the library, not that she had been hiding in her office to avoid seeing Xeph. As she was entering the library she saw them together, again. Xeph and the blonde, this really was too much to ask of her. She could be patient but this was too much. Rather than watch him help her with her books, she had quite a stack, rather than have to watch him smile at her and her giggle at him Nikhila turned and left the library. She needed another run. And maybe… just maybe she needed to talk to someone. This was obviously not going away and it was high time she confronted both it, him, and herself.

((ooc: Xeph's presence with permission))