My Professor Is My Alpha Mate

Chapter 0352 Lila’s POV X I was taken aback by Professor Xander’s cruel words. I never expected him to go easy on me so for him to assume that’s what I wanted was upsetting. If anything, I liked the challenge. I’ve never been one to shy away from a good challenge and I wasn’t going to start today.

Xander smirked.

“I’m changing the rules for you, Miss Lila,” Xander continued as he measured me with his eyes. “I’ve heard about you. Ah. Yes. I’ve heard everything about you and what you can do. I also heard about your incident with a student last year. Let me be clear... that won’t be happening again

this year.” I furrowed my brows together; was he talking about the incident with Becca? How did he even find out about that? It was supposed to be kept quiet.

“Your training will be different than the other students. Your training won't include your wolf. If you shift into your wolf, you will be penalized. All of your combat will be done in human form.” “I can’t shift?!” I gasped, staring up at him in disbelief.

He can’t just take away my ability to use my wolf. This was a combat class, but this was also a shifting class in a shifting academy.

“It’s a shifting class,” I spoke my thoughts out loud. “How do you expect

me to pass the class and not shift?” “Your lessons will be solely on combat.

We will be using various weapons and hand combat,” he explained, keeping his tone even. “The usage of your wolf is forbidden. Am I understood?” I stared at him for a moment longer, Val grew incredibly uneasy at the sound of his words, but she kept quiet.

I managed a head nod.

“Good,” he said, turning away from me and walking toward the back of the arena.

I took that as my cue to follow him; he was my partner for the semester after all.

Once we were away from everyone else, he turned toward me and placed his

hands behind his back. He stared at me with a blank expression.

I

asked, unsure if

he said

at him for a moment longer, his expression unchanged

I haven't seen you fight

was a tall and broad man who towered over me, but I’ve taken

hurt him and the thought of hurting a professor

won't,” he said, sounding very sure

made

fighting stance and lifted my clenched fists; he

about to make contact, my fist hit nothing but air. I nearly

my footing, I

ordered, taking

and I swallowed

face, but this time I actually fell to my face as he dodged the

moved at

you doing that?” I asked

first rule of combat is knowing your opponent's next move. Yours are predictable. With your feet’s placement and the movement of your body, I

going to tell him that I'm usually fast, but before I could get a word out, he was grabbing my arm, twisting it, spinning me around, and burying my face into the ground. The motion was so fast,

and his hand remained on the back of my head, keeping me pinned and unable

yelled as he put more pressure on my body. “You are hurting me,”

down,” he murmured against my ear, and I felt his hot breath on the side of my face, making my stomach turn. “You were unprepared, and it showed in your body

to attack you.” He grabbed my hair and yanked my head off the ground while keeping his knee dug into my back. Pain was instantly shooting through my body; Val was desperate to

could handle this on my own; there was a lesson in here and I was going to learn