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Seventy

Author: kaira queen
last update publish date: 2026-03-19 02:41:40

CAELUM'S POV

My ears were ringing, and the taste of dust clogged my throat when I awoke. I was wracked with pain, sharp stabs in my ribs, dull throbs everywhere else. For a panicky second or two, I couldn’t remember who I was or what had happened. All was darkness and dust, the settling rubble groaning around me.

Memory slammed back like a blow. The church. Isabelle back from the dead after 10 years. Gregor making his desperate move. Gunfire from every direction. The floor gave way beneath us,
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  • In Love With The Dangerous Professor   Seventy Seven

    CELINE'S POVVictoria’s face grew serious as she took her seat in the corner private study room that Kent managed to reserve for us. Hope lay on my arm, fast asleep; her little face was calm and serene — she knew nothing of the peril that threatened us from every side!“Just before Vivienne died, she put into effect what they call a dead man’s switch,” Victoria said, speaking softly and urgently as the two of us looked around to ensure we had privacy. “It’s Alexander thhat we have in much of the rest of the world. Every six months she had to check in with a very specific coded message sent to a secure server, or some information would automatically be made public in such a way that her enemies would read it. Extremely detailed, damaging information.""What kind of information exactly?" Caelum inquired, though his voice indicated he was fairly certain the answer wasn't going to be a pleasant one.My stomach dropped sickeningly. “How many days has it been since she died in that warehou

  • In Love With The Dangerous Professor   Seventy Six

    CAELUM'S POVI looked at the crib, and memories washed over me — thoughts that I’d buried and repressed for the better part of 20 years. Victoria, my own aunt who was Vivienne's little sister. I was a mere 8 years old when she’d been presumed dead, too young to grasp the enormity of death and the grief that followed its wake.I remembered her being essentially gentle where Vivienne was hard and cold. Warm and kind where Vivienne was calculating and distanced. She had read me bedtime stories when I came over to her apartment, showed me how draw simple little pictures, and thought of me as an actual child and not a future mafia don born for power.Then came the fire. A fire at her apartment building, which burned to the ground and killed six people, including Victoria. The family said it was just a sad accident, a case of shoddy wiring or something. That Victoria died trying to save other people, heroic until the end.Vivienne grew colder after that, even more cutthroat when it came to

  • In Love With The Dangerous Professor   Seventy Five

    CELINE'S POVCaelum went as white as a sheet, just fucking staring at his phone screen with all the color sucked out of him like somebody had pulled a plug. He was near the hospital room window, completing the last of the nominal discharge paperwork. Twelve hours of labor had already left me speechless from exhaustion, but in too much hap­piness to be too concerned over my aches and pains as I held baby Hope against my chest.But when I saw his face, my stomach sank."What's wrong?" I asked right away, moving Hope veru gently.He attempted to conceal it, stuffing the phone in his pocket. "Nothing. Just a congratulations text from Kent about the baby.”"Show me." I knew him too well, after all we had been through. Could see and read every micro expression that crossed his face."Celine, you just gave birth. You’re supposed to be asleep, not worried about —”"Caelum. Show me the message. Now."He paused for a long second weighing whether to shield me from whatever it was. Reluctantly, h

  • In Love With The Dangerous Professor   Seventy Four

    CAELUM'S POVSophia let go of the gun as if she had been burned by it, struggling to still her shaking hands. The weapon clanked to the lighthouse floor, and its echo broke his thoughts in the silence following his shot. "I came after you," she whispered so that her words were lost to me over the roar of my fluttering heart and the boom of waves breaking far below. "I thought I could help you out after what all you did for me. I couldn’t just be here, safe at home while you went out again and risked your life.”I simply nodded, too stunned and overloaded to reply in kind with words. I was still thinking through what had just happened, how close we’d come to it all falling apart. I knelt down beside Celine and took her in my arms, patting her hurriedly to check for any damage I might have ignored. "Are you okay? Is the baby okay? You're supposed to be in the hospital on bed rest, hence what are you doing here by yourself?“I’m O.K.,” she said, out of breath and crying and laughing at t

  • In Love With The Dangerous Professor   Seventy three

    CELINE'S POVI could not remain in the hospital. Couldn’t just lie there in that uncomfortable bed, the sterile white walls judging me, while Caelum walked into mortal danger and I wasn’t there to have his back. The nurse had entered the room every hour with clocklike regularity, taking my vitals and baby’s heartbeat, scribbling on charts and dialing up my IV.When she left to check on more patients in the other rooms, I decided. Most likely one of the stupidest things I've ever done, but I did it.I slowly removed my IV, trying not to trigger an alarm. I threw on the clothes Maddie brought me yesterday, doing my best to run even though I was currently running with a baby belly. Exit the room with me head up, trying to look as though I had every right to be leaving.The nurse working the central station moved to interrupt me, shouting that I should not leave, that I had not been discharged by the doctor. But I continued through with purpose, signing all the forms thrust under my nose,

  • In Love With The Dangerous Professor   Seventy Two

    CAELUM'S POVWhen we got to the emergency room it was a total zoo, sirens screaming on the ambulance as it pulled up to the front door in such a way my ears actually hurt. Medical staff poured out, and quickly started moving, conveying Celine from the ambulance gurney to a hospital with well-rehearsed ease. I attempted to dart in close behind, but was physically prevented by a sympathetic yet utterly unbudgeable nurse.“Sir, you will have to wait here in the waiting room. Let the doctors work. They need breathing room and also to work towards helping your wife.”"That's my wife. My baby. I need to be with her." My voice sounded desperate, broken in the way I’d never heard myself sound before.“I do totally get it, and I also know how terrifying this is. But what is in her best interest, and Griff’s, right now is entering our medical team do their job without interference. We’ll let you know as soon as we have anything.”I was physically denied access to the surgical area, relegated t

  • In Love With The Dangerous Professor   Twenty Nine

    Celine's POVThree hours.Three hours to my mother’s place. And three hours of highway stretching on indefinitely while my mind whirled in the world of worst case scenarios.I couldn't stop shaking. Couldn't breathe properly. I closed my eyes, and I saw my mother’s face, heard her terrified voice b

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  • In Love With The Dangerous Professor   Thirty Four

    Caelum's POVMax the security was just as awful as I remembered!I'd been in worse situations. Had been snatched by rivals, tortured for information, left for dead. But this time there was no way out. No backup plan. No exit but through the judges and lawyers who had wanted me dead or at least lock

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-25
  • In Love With The Dangerous Professor   Thirty Two

    Caelum's POVI stayed locked on my mother, gun to gun, every instinct screaming that the threat was gone."What did you do?" My voice was flat, controlled."Isn't it obvious?" Vivienne waved Dante over with her now-clean blade. "I found the guy who threatened my kids and fiancee. I extracted inform

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  • In Love With The Dangerous Professor   Thirty

    Caelum's POVThe second the signal cut out, I knew.“Boss, they’ve disappeared,” Kent’s voice crackled in my earpiece. "Wire's dead, tracker's dead. Jammer somewhere inside."I was halfway there before he stopped talking. Drew my weapon, moved toward the factory gate."Caelum, wait!" Kent grabbed m

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-24
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