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, watching amusedly as her right hand came up to touch

kid, but you… You always preferred verbal manipulation, didn’t

widened even further as it began to hit

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

heel and held my hand out to my mate, who was staring at me

“I think I’ve had enough

Audrey

mother, mouth working uselessly and hand clutching her throat, would haunt me for some time. Even now,

his toothbrush back into

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

hair. “My 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

said, following him from the bathroom. “To have

and sank down onto the edge of the bed. “My dad wasn’t a bad Alpha, all things considered. He

was hell,” I finished

a bit since the incident with the little girl, especially now that I knew it was partially staged by Stella, although the guilt was still nagging at the edges

there was something else on my

Luna.

Not ‘mate’. Not

Luna.

even sure how to begin talking about it, or if Edwin would even want to talk about

hearing it had made my heart

“Edwin-”

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“Audrey-”

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

and looked at

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

sooner,” Edwin began slowly, hesitantly. “I don’t know if it’ll

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

“Will you marry me?”

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

The ring.

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

if that was even possible at that

“Edwin, I…”

when I saw the way your eyes turned to

down and plucked the little ruby ring out of the box, holding it up. It caught the moonlight, sending little fractals of red glimmering

have to do with…” I stammered

explained. “But… I know how

to propose,” I finished