One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 227

Audrey

I wasn’t alone for long before Edwin returned to the courtyard, his arms laden with plates full of fragrant hors d’oeuvres and glasses of bubbly champagne… and then some.

“Are those… shot glasses?” I asked with an amused chuckle as he set the horde of food and drinks down on the stone bench beside me.

My mate smirked and held one of the tiny glasses filled with clear liquid out to me. “I figured you might want a little liquid courage,” he said.

I shook my head, but couldn’t help but laugh as I took the glass. We clinked them together and downed the shots in one go -vodka, I quickly realized as it burned a hot path down my throat. I grimaced and shuddered as I swallowed, scrunching my eyes shut.

“I hate vodka.” I groaned, resisting the urge to gag.

“You’re not supposed to like it.” Edwin grinned as he grabbed another and poured it down the hatch, somehow keeping a relatively straight face as he did. “It’s just supposed to get you drunk.”

Sure enough, my head was already beginning to feel a bit fuzzy by the time I took my second shot. “You could have warned me you were only bringing me here to get me drunk, Professor Brooks,” I teased as I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand.

My words seemed to stoke the embers in my mate’s chest, and he tugged me onto his lap as he took his seat on the bench. “All so I can take advantage of you,” he quipped, brushing the hair away from my neck to nip at the exposed skin.

The sensation made me shiver pleasantly, momentarily forgetting about my anxiety. Edwin, sensing this, nuzzled into the crook of my neck and planted a few kisses just beneath my ear, which nearly caused me to purr out loud.

But before it could go any further, Edwin reached over and picked up a puff pastry off of one of the plates, holding it up to my mouth.

“Open up…”

Obediently, I opened my mouth to accept the sweet pastry. The taste of vanilla cream exploded on my tongue as I chewed, eyes closed, and swallowed.

“Feeling better?” Edwin asked as he popped one into his mouth and then fed me another.

a sheepish smile. “You always know how to

from him again, my wolf growled in the back

up another hors d’oeuvre, this time a glistening spring roll, and held it out to Edwin. He ate the whole thing in one bite,

not careful, you might unleash a new kink for

Edwin just smirked wickedly.

a while, wrapped up in each other as we fed one another treats and sipped our drinks. Soon enough, I had almost entirely forgotten about my earlier turmoil-mostly thanks to Edwin

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full and my legs itching to move, I hopped

some more.”

didn’t argue with that, and took my hand, letting me

floor, weaving through crowds of attendees. I stumbled a bit, my cheeks flushed, but didn’t mind the warmth spreading throughout my body or the gentle laze

bodies, guests moving almost frantically to the upbeat music. The air

and threw my head back and shimmied my hips and shoulders to the music, no longer caring about the eyes on me

beautiful when you’re carefree,” Edwin’s

“You’re just saying that

it working?” he

just feel better once I shift. Which… could

to twirl us both across the dancefloor. Other guests moved out of the way for us, hands clapping together to the beat as we began to dance in the

But I saw it again; that shadow hiding in his eyes. The same one

of the circle. Another couple jumped in—a young man in a forest green suit and a girl in a golden gown-and took our place, twirling across the floor together. I clapped my hands to the beat along with everyone else, but tried my

I thought to him, leveling him with a stern glare. “You keep giving

pale. “Audrey, I…” He looked away, pretending to look at the next couple that jumped into the circle, but I could sense that something was wrong. Finally, he said, “Okay. Yes. There is one last thing that could possibly help you shift. But I’m not certain if it’ll work,

mine across the circle, and there was something in them that made my heart skip, although I couldn’t seem to put my finger

stepping into the

and clapped to the beat, eager to keep the dance going, but I felt

thing to help me