One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter

45 Audrey & Edwin Audrey's POV

By the time class was over, my skin was practically vibrating with nerves. I took my packing up my things, waiting until the last student had left the room before I approached the podium where Edwin was waiting.

"You wanted to speak with me?" I asked, stopping a respectful few feet away and clutching my books to my chest.

Edwin glanced up from his papers on the podium for a moment and shot me a glance down the bridge of his nose. "Do you see now why I warned you against dating that boy?" he asked, his pen scratching across the paper. My mouth fell open of its own accord. Was this really what Edwin wanted to talk about? Again?

"What do you mean?" I finally managed after several beats of silence.

Sighing, Edwin shut the folder he had open on the podium and stuffed it into his briefcase. "You think you're safe from it," he said, "but even as a teaching assistant, you run the risk of creating drama by dating students in the class you're working in. I tried to warn you."

As Edwin spoke, I felt my stomach sink a bit. He was right, even though I didn't want to admit it; thanks to the rumors about Gavin and me, people now thought that I was handing out good grades to those who they assumed I had feelings for. "Well... Thank you for speaking up for me," I said quietly, clutching tighter against my chest.

my books a little

Edwin regarded me for a moment before answering. "I wasn't about to stand idly by while people were throwing out baseless accusations. Despite how it may come across, Audrey, I'd hate to lose you as my teaching assistant."

I didn't know how to respond to that. My cheeks flushed hotly, and I looked away as though that would somehow hide it.

"Thank you."

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Another long silence. I stood there for a few moments, shifting from foot to foot, before 1 couldn't bear it any longer.

"But I have to ask. Did you really warn me because you knew this would happen? Or did you try to deter me from dating Gavin because of your own personal reasons?"

Edwin's POV

floundered for a moment, my mouth opening and closing mechanically-d**it. How did this girl always have the ability to make me

matter anyway. Gavin and I are just friends. I rejected

raised his hackles. "Rejected

and cleared my throat. "You rejected him, eh?" I asked, folding my arms across my chest. "How does that

roil again. "Don't play s**id, Edwin. You're

care why Audrey had rejected him. Hell, she could have dated him if she wanted to, for all I cared. I was only worried about the

of black hair away from her collarbone.

of her pale shoulder, and closed the metal clasps on my briefcase with a snap. "Well... I'm sorry to hear that. You

growled angrily. "You wanted her this whole time.

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but there just isn't much of a romantic

him?" my wolf asked. "Or

jacket on and grabbed my briefcase. "Well, either way... I hope you learned your lesson. Next time, be sure to date sor one who isn't one of the students in this class." I paused, turning toward the door, and ast her one last glance over my shoulder. "Student-teacher relationships can end with

high heels. clicking on the tiles as we stepped

be more careful so as not to get

curve of

the flicker in her eyes, the way

Was she implying...?

"Audrey, I-"

was already gone before I could say a

night, i

in here of

bar was smoky, the music mingling with the sounds of raucous

that I minded. The

feel more anonymous, the din making it easier to stare