One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 37

Edwin & Audrey

Edwin's POV

I exhaled with a sigh, the smoke from my cigar puffing from between my lips and trailing into the night sky. Leaning on my balcony, I took another drag and held it for a moment, flicking a bit of ash off the tip and watching as the dim red embers fluttered to the ground below. All around me, I could hear the sounds of the town awakening with nightlife. It was a lively Saturday night; countless parties with thumping bass, rowdy bar goers wandering down the street, and loud music and laughter and clinking bottles wafting through the night air. But I was as solitary as usual.

My apartment behind me was mostly dark, save for the single lamp partially illuminating the living room. I had already had my dinner-takeout, as usual-and was already wondering if I should stay up and read or head to bed soon. But sleep would elude me for some time to come.

"You're thinking about her again," my wolf's voice echoed in the back of my mind.

His words made me grimace, but I didn't try to deny it any longer. It was true; I kept thinking back to last night, no matter how hard I tried not to. Back to those hours with Audrey in my office.

spent

It was st**d of me to be so enthralled by this meaningless human girl. I was convinced that it was a proximity thing; a string of bad luck that I had **ed up with a girl at the bar who later turned out to be my student and my teaching assistant. But at the same time, I couldn't find it in me to be mad about it. There was something about her...

For the millionth time since last night, my mind wandered back to those moments when she had called me a cheater and stormed out of my office. I couldn't blame her-I had promised to tell her about my point of view on our night together, and I had clammed up. It wasn't like me to do that.

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Maybe it was because, truthfully, I didn't have any 'pointers' for her. Because, despite the fact that she had been a bit inexperienced, it was still a phenomenal night.

And I couldn't tell her that. After all, I was her professor, and I was more than a decade her senior

"Goddess" I groaned under my breath, passing my hand over my face. "She wasn't even. born in the 90s, and I was almost in high school at that point."

growled in agreement. "She's

I grumbled. "And my

the patio

not for the reasons she suspected. "You shouldn't have

cigar, letting the tangy smoke burn the back of my throat. My wolf was right again, as usual. I should have told her; I should have been honest that

that

ignoring the next text that popped up on my phone. "I'm going to end it anyway. I'm not going

in annoyance. "You've been saying that

plan on ending, yes, it was just that... Well, it was a political marriage. A longstanding contract between our packs, one

worse, there was parental pressure, media

finishing the last of my cigar and

said under my breath.

Chapter 37

Audrey's POV

"Audrey? Can we talk?"

look in his eye. Immediately, I felt my proverbial hackles raise; but before I could bite out a response, Tina

she growled, flashing her fangs at

just continued to stare at me with a pleading look in his eyes. "Please, Audrey," he said. "I

what?" I

party momentarily before nodding his head toward the

on me. "Don't

my jaw. She was right; Max couldn't be trusted. Especially not after what he and Linda had tried to do

you can say right here," I said firmly, holding my ground. "In

friends."

a moment, Max's face hardened and his eyes flickered back and forth between the three of us. Then, finally, his shoulders slumped and he took a step closer. "Alright, fine. Here it is, Audrey: I love you, and I miss you. And

me back?" I

his hair. "Yes. I know you're hurt, and you think

know you said those things about me, Max!" I bit out, my voice rising an octave with every syllable.

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