One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 243

Audrey

“To Audrey! Our friend, Luna, and savior.”

I rolled my eyes at Tina’s last choice of words, but toasted anyway. The red wine instantly soothed my frayed nerves as it went down.

“Are you guys sure I didn’t make a fool of myself?” I asked, looking at my friends around the cramped kitchen. “I feel like I did.”

“I mean, you didn’t pi** yourself or run off the stage crying, so I’d say it could have been worse,” Gavin joked, eliciting a well- deserved smack on the arm from Avis.

Betty rolled her eyes. “Don’t listen to him, Audrey. You did great. Seriously.”

Unsatisfied, I glanced over at Edwin. He was currently elbow-deep in a bowl of homemade pizza dough, his sleeves rolled up, flour dusting his exposed skin. The entire kitchen smelled like yeast and freshly made tomato sauce.

“You have more public speaking skills than you give yourself credit for,” he said with a small smile in my direction. “Even with all those cameras around, you spoke like a pro.”

I suppressed a shiver at the reminder of the cameras. The town square where the press event had been held had been packed to the brim with reporters when we’d arrived. I knew that it would be a frenzy, but not quite to that extent.

Still, somehow I had managed to follow Betty’s public speaking advice and give my speech with relative ease. My voice had cracked a few times and my hands shook as I spoke, but it seemed to have turned out okay in the end.

Especially the part where Edwin and I had announced that I was the official Luna of Crescent pack, brandishing the ring on my finger.

The reporters had gone absolutely berserk at that, asking questions about our impromptu mating ceremony, whether we had a public wedding planned, and why we’d gotten married so quickly.

I’d told them the truth; that I knew the Silver Star needed to shift in order to save the people I cared about. And that it was thanks to our off-the-cuff, private mating ceremony that I’d not only been able to do that, but also fulfill my promise to Ivy and all those other kids.

I think I handled that part pretty well, at least.

And now here we were, hours later, standing in the middle of the apartment kitchen with the scent of homemade pizza in the air and the taste of cheap red wine in our bellies.

would have followed us to whatever restaurant we agreed on, and besides-this sort of peace was exactly what we had fought for, and

here, agreeing on homemade pizza and s***y box wine. I’d hung up my

then, who was leaning back in one of the chairs around the kitchen table with his legs stretched out in front of him. The way his eyes kept flicking to Betty whenever she laughed wasn’t lost

uninterested in him.

dare,” Edwin’s voice rippled down

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my wine, hiding my smirk. “Quit reading my

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don’t have to. It’s written all over your face,” Edwin chuckled. “You

on. They would have made a cute couple, and it was clear

then it was on them

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the doorway and looped his arm around my shoulders. He smelled like a mixture of dinner and cologne, and I leaned into him, watching as our friends joked

tonight: Peter, Betty, Gavin, Avis, Tina, Eliza, Claudia, and even Charles. Our

thought about my proposition?”

awake in bed. His empty mansion up in the center of Crescent territory was almost empty, just sitting there waiting for us. We’d discussed moving to the estate before, but it

had rented it, he’d never expected to have so many

far,” I thought back to him, chewing my lower lip.

Gavin was moving in with her soon. Tina was staying with Claudia, who’d basically become her foster mother, while

was less than a thirty

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except for Peter, who was the only one who spent most of his time up north. But he roamed around enough that it hardly mattered. The guy practically lived in motels, especially since he’d become Crescent’s spymaster. I saw him at least three

knowing where any of us would be in a year. Maybe, as is endemic in groups of friends fresh out of college, we’d eventually split up and

Natural. But in the meantime, I wanted to enjoy having my strange

sensing these thoughts of mine through our bond. “I don’t mean

a little sigh