The Alpha's Silent Rejection
5 : Stay Away

Chapter 5

Lilith POV

His ocean blue eyes sucked me in them like a vacuum, and I felt breathless from the intensity theywere staring me back in the eyes. Carson's eyes were like a deep ocean, the one that has so muchdepth that you would never be able to explore it in one go. And right now, I felt the same.

It didn’t matter for how long I swam in those orbs, there was always something I missed out, be itthose tiny green freckles in his eyes or the slight dilation in his pupils. However, his eyes had thatlook of surprise in them all this time, but not for long.

It was as if something snapped while I was exploring the depths of his eyes because at one moment;they were soft and surprised and the next moment; they were hard and cold. No longer were theygazing at me with surprise and curiosity, but disdain.

The fact that I was craning my neck to look at him all this time didn't even register in my head as Iwas busy gazing in his eyes. But when he let go of the bar, my heart halted for a second, fearing hewould hurt himself, and my craned neck followed his fall, reminding me of the painful stretch myneck was enduring for the past few minutes.

While I was worrying about him getting hurt, he landed on the ground with perfection and I onceagain craned my neck to look at him because of how tall he was. My eyes landed straight on hisjuicy pink lips while trying to get a look at his eyes, and my mind went numb.

I gulped while staring at his lips that were moist and tried to distract myself by looking at the rest ofhis face. However, I just made another mistake because this man felt like an imagination just madeto kill me.

My heart raced when I took a look at his handsome face, and my gut clenched with need. He hadhigh cheekbones with a very light stubble giving a prominent shape to his cheekbones. Iunconsciously licked my lips while taking in his features and he cocked one of his perfectly slightlyarched dark eyebrows at me when I did so.

The action led me to look at his jet-black messy hair that were sticking on his forehead because ofsweat that he had accumulated while working out. I had forgotten that he was walking in mydirection as I got carried away in memorizing his face, which was getting closer and closer to me byeach passing second.

If my heart was racing before, now it was trying to break my ribs and jump out right at this momentbecause Carson stood just two feet away from me. My neck was craning painfully as I waited for himto say something, but he just gulped and the action made me want to rub my thighs together.

“You should meet Miss Wesley, I'm very busy at this moment.” He spoke in a dismissing tone.

I instantly felt like I was slapped by reality, the reality that I am not someone he would waste histime on. I gulped my tangled emotions down and nodded before realizing that he’s not looking atme but staring straight ahead. For once I wished I was taller than my 5'8 frame so that I could get alook at his eyes but it wouldn't have mattered because his 6'4 frame would have still towered overme and the fact that he is not even looking at me should be enough for me to know howuninterested he is.

I shook my head lightly to get these thoughts out of my head and looked up at him again beforealmost whispering, “Okay.”

Carson nodded his head and looked down at me for the first time since he came and stood in frontof me. I thought he’s going to say something about leaving now, but he did nothing like that.Instead, his eyes gazed at my face for a minute before they halted on my lips and then he slowlybent down. I closed my eyes expecting him to kiss me while my heartbeat ringed in my ears at theanticipation. However, I felt his hot breath fanning my neck a second later, and a pleasurable shiverran down my body as his lips were merely an inch away from the shell of my ear.

"Stay away from me.” He whispered in my ear softly with a hard edge.

As my mind interpreted his words, my eyes snapped open while my lips parted in shock. He couldn'thave just said that to me, right? I must have heard him wrong, but before I could utter a word andask him what did he say, he was already walking back to the pull-up bars.

I felt my eyes stung with tears as my mind replayed his words, but then I reminded myself that I'mhere to study and if I didn't pass with good marks, I'll be thrown out of this college. It woulddisappoint James in me because for him, I'm the smartest student he has ever met.

As these thoughts made their way into my mind, I took a deep breath to control my emotions andturned to walk away with a promise to myself. “Il would steer clear of Carson Woods and would notbother myself with him."

I was the one who read too much in the lines, and I will be the one to erase those lines.