Deep In Love: An Academic Rivals-to-Lovers Spicy STEM Romance

by Nicole Cubba

It hurts to behold her, but it’s even more painful to look away.

I know what I want, and it’s Charlie. Not for a night or a three-week trip, but tomorrow and every day after until our days run out. I’m sure about her, about us. Only took two years for me to workup the courage to admit it to her.

Charlie giggles and the sound strikes my solar plexus like a rogue lightning bolt.

I don’t want to give her any more of myself if she’s going to break this off. She already holds so much of my heart. If I give her any more, it will become hers alone.

But she is my one absolute; my heart begins and ends with her.

I know very little about crystals for healing energy, or the powers the moon holds, but there’s power in Charlie’s smile.

I think if Charlie let me, I would be content to dedicate my life to loving her.

They could throw a thousand people in a room, and I would look for you first, Charlie. That kind of beauty is powerful.”

He’s not supposed to know that I hate my reflection and that, some days, it’s easier to pretend I don’t exist than face the world’s icy stares.

Her beauty is incomparable. In a thousand different lifetimes, it would always be her for me.

I could spend the next forty years as a scientist, but you will always be my greatest discovery. My most important find. My purpose.”

“Te amo, bruja. I love you. Deeply. Unconditionally. It transcends logic or reason, time and space. There is no fear you could show me, or insecurity you could whisper, that would change how I feel.”