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 as her right hand came up

it’s funny,” I said, taking a step back. “Dad loved to exert physical power over me as a kid, but you… You always preferred verbal manipulation, didn’t you? You were so good at it. But I

eyes widened even further as it began to

going to let her speak again. Not for a good long while, at least.

who was staring at me with mouth agape

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

a week or so,” Edwin said as he dropped his toothbrush back into the holder on

touch my own throat. “I guess it was a

use it. I think it’s about time she learns that

the bathroom.

Alpha, all things considered. He did well in Crescent, and was respected. My mother was the perfect Luna on the

was hell,” I

sobered up considerably. I’d calmed a bit since the incident with the little

something else on my

Luna.

Not ‘mate’.

Luna.

Edwin would even want to talk about it. Maybe it didn’t even mean anything;

couldn’t deny the way that hearing it had made

“Edwin-”

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“Audrey-”

the same time and both snapped our mouths shut at

flushed a deep shade of red and looked at my bare feet on the hardwood floor. “You

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rustling, followed by his footsteps approaching. When I looked up, he was standing about a foot away from

to shift sooner,” Edwin began slowly, hesitantly. “I don’t know if it’ll work for certain, though. So I want you

wanted to wait until I was ready. But if you have some training method or some kind of, I don’t know, potion to make

“Will you marry me?”

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

The ring.

know you snooped,” Edwin said quietly, reaching out to flip the box open in my

even deeper, if that was even

“Edwin, I…”

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

down and plucked the little ruby ring out of the

does this have to do with…” I stammered

you shift for the first time,” he explained. “But… I know how much you’ve struggled with your identity as

were afraid to propose,”