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

girl always have the ability to make me like this? I had never had these kinds of issues

I are just friends. I rejected

raised his hackles. "Rejected him,"

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

at me in surprise for a moment. My wolf began to roil again. "Don't play s**id, Edwin. You're hopeful, aren't you? That

have no more of his antics. I didn't care why Audrey had rejected him. Hell, she could have dated him if she wanted to, for all

Audrey pulled her slender shoulders back and flipped a loose lock of black hair away from her collarbone. "I just thought you would

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

"You

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good friend, but there just isn't much of

him?" my wolf asked. "Or

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 a loss. of

tiles as we stepped into the

just have to be more careful so as not

curve of

excitement. The her lips as she spoke, the flicker in her eyes, the way her gaze roamed up

Was she implying...?

"Audrey, I-"

already gone before I could

i

in here of

the bar was smoky, the music mingling with the

that I minded. The

din making it easier to stare down into my drink and zone