One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 229

Edwin & Audrey

Edwin

I’d had enough.

I was an Alpha; not a child who could be cowed by his parents’ psychological tactics. And I’d be d*d if I **let anyone treat

mate like that.

my

That word-Luna-slipped out before I could stop it, but I knew at that moment that it was true.

I was going to propose to Audrey tonight. I was going to make her my Luna, help her shift, and end all of this nonsense.

But first, I had to put Stella Brooks in her place.

“Luna?” My mother threw her head back, blonde hair bobbing, and laughed abrasively. “Did I miss the wedding, or is this another one of your lies?”

Clenching my hands into fists, I stormed up to her. “It doesn’t matter if she’s the Luna now or tomorrow,” I replied coldly. “I’ll not have you speak to her like that. Being cruel to her, shoving her at a public event, attempting to humiliate her.”

My mother scoffed. “I think I have the right after what she did to my husband. If you’d speak to your father, you’d know what he’s like now. A husk of his former self… Always babbling on about death and ‘the void. You should have just killed him instead.”

“And if I see him again, maybe I will,” I replied quickly. “But all Audrey did was show him the truth—and to call her destructive for that is just downright ignorant.”

To my surprise, my mother remained silent.

“If you want to talk about ‘destructive’, then maybe we should talk about what you did tonight,” I continued, my voice lowering to a dangerous level. “You sought out that little girl—told her to come and talk to us. You thought we wouldn’t be able to handle it. That Audrey’s secret would come out. You used a child for your own satisfaction.”

“And it nearly worked,” my mother sneered, folding her arms across her chest. “The world deserves to know the truth. I mean, honestly, Edwin… You’ve always been a troublemaker, but this? Lying about the Silver Star? It will only backfire.”

“Perhaps. But it was my idea, and thus my own burden to bear.”

“Well… it was a p*** poor idea, wasn’t it, darling?”

My wolf growled in response to my mother’s goading, but I quelled the urge to lash out and instead took one more calculated step toward her.

“Whatever you might think of my decisions, Mother,” I growled, “I am the Alpha of Crescent-not Father, not you, not anyone else. Me.”

“You don’t deserve it. I’ll tell everyone that—”

“Quiet.”

I rarely used it—my Alpha Voice. The intonation that could force anyone in Crescent pack to step back into line, to obey. To

it was an archaic ability, one that was used by ancient Alphas to control their people into borderline slavery.

But I didn’t care at this moment.

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the panic behind her eyes, watching amusedly

a kid, but you… You always preferred verbal manipulation, didn’t you? You were so good at it. But I guess you can’t

even further

speak again. Not for a good long while, at least.

to my mate, who was staring at me with mouth agape and

my love,” I said. “I think I’ve had

Audrey

clutching her throat, would haunt me for some time. Even now, hours later, I still shuddered just at

Edwin said as he dropped his toothbrush back into the holder on the counter. “Don’t worry. I

swallowed hard, resisting the urge to touch my own

sighed and ran a hand through his hair. “My mother has always had a viper’s tongue. And she loves to use it. I think it’s about

have been hard,” I said, following him from the bathroom. “To have those two in control of Crescent,

all things considered. He did well

hell,” I finished

silence. By now, I had sobered up considerably. I’d calmed a bit since the incident with the little girl, especially

was something else

Luna.

Not ‘mate’. Not

Luna.

how to begin talking about it, or if Edwin would even want to talk about it. Maybe it didn’t even mean anything; maybe it was just a

hearing it

“Edwin-”

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“Audrey-”

began speaking at the same time and both snapped our mouths shut at

at my

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his footsteps approaching. When I looked

a way for you to shift sooner,” Edwin began slowly, hesitantly. “I don’t know if it’ll

is, I want to know,” I said softly. “I know… I know in the past, I wanted to wait

“Will you marry me?”

floor, his arm shot out and coiled around me, pulling me back against him. At the same time,

The ring.

quietly, reaching out to flip the box open in

even deeper, if that was even possible at

“Edwin, I…”

marry you even more when I saw the way your eyes turned to saucers when you saw that

as I stared down at the ring in my palm. Gently, Edwin reached down and plucked the little ruby ring out of the box, holding it up. It caught the moonlight, sending little fractals of red glimmering throughout

does this have to

ceremony-giving you a marking bite-might help you shift for the first time,” he explained. “But… I know how much you’ve struggled with your identity as the Silver Star. How you want to be loved for you,

you were afraid to propose,”