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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mouth snapped shut. I could see the panic behind her eyes, watching amusedly as

power over me as a kid, but you… You always preferred verbal manipulation, didn’t you? You were so

further as it

a good

who was staring at me with mouth agape and eyes glowing the brightest silver

my love,” I said. “I think I’ve had enough of

Audrey

image of Edwin’s mother, mouth working uselessly and hand clutching her throat, would haunt me for some time. Even now,

to speak in a week or so,” Edwin said as he dropped his toothbrush back into the holder on the counter. “Don’t worry.

hard, resisting the urge to touch my own throat. “I guess it was a

mother has always had a viper’s tongue. And she loves to use it. I think it’s about time she learns that she won’t get away with treating everyone in whichever awful way she

the bathroom. “To have those two in control of

parents…” Edwin shook his head and sank down onto the edge of the bed. “My dad wasn’t a bad Alpha, all things considered. He did well in Crescent, and was respected. My mother was the perfect Luna

I finished for

since the incident with the little girl, especially now that

else

Luna.

‘future Luna’. Not ‘mate’. Not

Luna.

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 slip of

hearing it had made my heart swell

“Edwin-”

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I looked up, he was standing about a foot away from me, his skin almost illuminated

told you that there might be a way for you to shift sooner,” Edwin began slowly, hesitantly. “I don’t know if it’ll work for certain, though. So I want you to be prepared for

know,” I said softly. “I know… I know in the past, I wanted to wait until I was ready. But if you have

“Will you marry me?”

stumbling back, my throat closing before I could speak. Before I could fall to the floor, his arm shot out and coiled around me, pulling me back against him. At the same time, I felt something small and velvety

The ring.

the box open in

flushed even deeper, if that was even

“Edwin, I…”

you even more when I saw the way your eyes turned to saucers when you saw that ring in the shop window. And after tonight… I don’t think I can wait any longer,

stared down at the ring in my palm. Gently, Edwin reached down and plucked the little ruby ring

does this have

found out recently that an official mating ceremony-giving you a marking bite-might help you shift for the first time,” he explained. “But… I know how much

you were afraid to propose,”