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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my mother’s mouth snapped shut. I could see the panic behind her eyes,

know, 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

mother’s eyes widened even further as it began to hit

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

hand out to my mate, who was staring at me

“I

Audrey

mother, mouth working uselessly and hand clutching her throat, would haunt me for some time. Even now, hours later, I still shuddered

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

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

has always had a viper’s tongue. And she loves to use it. I think it’s about time she learns that she

following him from the bathroom. “To have those two in control of Crescent,

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

I finished

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

else on

Luna.

Not ‘mate’. Not

Luna.

begin talking about it, or if Edwin would even want

the way that hearing it had made my heart

“Edwin-”

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“Audrey-”

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something rustling, followed by his footsteps approaching. When I looked up, he was standing about a foot away from me, his skin almost illuminated by the moonlight spilling

to shift sooner,” Edwin began slowly, hesitantly. “I don’t

the past, I wanted to wait until I was ready. But if you have some training method or

“Will you marry me?”

Before I could fall to the floor, his arm shot out and coiled around

The ring.

said quietly, reaching out to flip the box open in my palm. “It

if that was

“Edwin, I…”

were my mate,” he murmured. “I wanted to marry you even more when I saw the way

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

what does this have

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

afraid to propose,” I finished