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My Best Friend’s Brother Is My Professor—And He Wants Me 136
Elena CarsonMy body is still trembling when the aftershocks finally thin out.I lie there catching my breath, the sheets cool against my bare back, the feel of ice cream and him still against my skin. Killian settles beside me with one arm careful of the dressing. For a few seconds neither of us speaks. My pulse slowly remembers a normal speed.I reach for a nightshirt from the chair, pull it over my head, and slide back under the covers against him.“That was so good,” I murmur.“You want more?”“No. Nora will be back soon.”He makes a low sound that is almost a laugh and nips lightly at the edge of my jaw. “Coward.”“Practical.”“Same thing when it keeps me from touching you.”I smile into his shoulder and let the talk drift to a café I found near campus with ridiculous pastries and windows that fog in the morning. A professor who assigns too much reading. The way Nora pretends she hates romantic movies and then cries at the second act every time. He listens like the details
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Killian DavenportYLEKI stays on my mind for the rest of the day.I stay later at the company than I mean to, pulling old vendor lists, side-entity registers, archived transfer summaries from the months before the London exposure started. Emma has already cross-checked the public filings twice. Ronald has Ian peeling the shell. None of it returns the private click of memory I need. By nine the floor is mostly empty and my arm aches in a low, continuous complaint under the dressing. I shut the laptop, take my jacket, and leave the unanswered letters where they are.The day is incomplete without her.I stop for ice cream on the way because the shop’s lights are still on. Two large bowls. The city is cooler at this hour. Traffic thins. By the time I park beneath her building the residual tension of Davenport Co. has loosened.I press the doorbell with my good hand.Elena opens the door with a smile. Hair loose. Soft clothes. The diamond at her neck catches the hallway light.“I’m
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Killian DavenportThe executive floor of Davenport Co is oddly quiet quiet today.I have been back three days. Long enough for the staff to stop staring at the sling under my jacket. I move through it carefully. Not timidly. Carefully. I listen more than I speak in meetings. I watch who goes quiet when my name enters a sentence. I note which assistants suddenly have errands when I appear at a doorway. Social cues are data. In a building like this, data keeps you alive.Emma has been useful in ways I did not fully expect.I told her because the alternative was operating half-blind inside a company still recovering from one crisis while another bled under the floorboards. Besides Ronald, she is the only person here I trust with incomplete information and the discipline not to turn it into theater. She keeps the public narrative stable. She flags internal chatter before it becomes a problem. This morning she left a folder on my desk with three soft leads and a note in her precise ha
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Elena CarsonBy late afternoon the penthouse has finally stopped feeling like a command center.The detectives are gone. Philip is gone. Ronald’s updates have thinned. Nora left after lunch with a reluctant hug and a promise to come back if either of us even sounded wrong on the phone. I find him in the kitchen doorway watching me finish a cup of tea I have already reheated once.“We’re going out,” he says.I blink. “Out where?”“Dinner. The reservation I made for Sunday is transferable. Or it is now.” A faint dry edge enters his voice. “I called in a favor.”“You planned that before everything.”“I planned it for you. The circumstances changed. The intention didn’t.”I look down at myself, his shirt, soft pants, hair still damp from a second shower I took more for nerves than need. “I’m not exactly dressed for five stars.”“Then change. Or don’t. I’ll take you as you are.”Something in the simplicity of it undoes me more. I go to the bedroom and stand in front of the limited c
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Killian Davenport Morning arrives as pain first.The arm that felt manageable under adrenaline and artificial light now from last night, now throbs in a deep, insistent pulse from shoulder to elbow. The dressing is tight. The sutures pull when I shift. For a few seconds I lie still and inventory the rest of the damage, the residual bruise along my ribs from the gravel, the grit of exhaustion behind my eyes, the fact that Elena is asleep against my uninjured side with one hand curled in the fabric of my shirt like her body has not yet accepted that the war is over.I ease out of bed without waking her.The penthouse is pale with early light. I start coffee one-handed and make breakfast with the same limitation: eggs, toast, the fruit she will actually eat. Ordinary motions. Useful ones. The alternative is standing in the quiet and replaying the timer on that chair until my thoughts turn useless.Nora arrives before eight, skipping class without apology, hair thrown up
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Elena CarsonThe shower is the first place I go into.Hot water runs over my shoulders and turns the dust of that concrete floor into pale swirls around my feet. I wash my hair twice. I scrub my wrists carefully around the bandages until the residual adhesive and skin-scent of fear start to give way to Killian’s soap. When I step out, the mirror is fogged and my reflection is only a blurred shape. I am grateful for that.He has left clean clothes on the bed, his shirt, soft drawstring pants that require me to roll the waistband twice. I dress slowly. Every movement reminds me of the chair, the timer, the way the scarred man’s voice sat against my skin. I push the memory back into a smaller room in my mind and leave it there for later.In the living room the romantic setup is still waiting. Candles slumped in their own wax. Roses darkening at the edges. I start clearing it because leaving it untouched feels weird. Killian appears from the hallway with his injured arm held clos
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Elena CarsonIt’s been three days since Professor Davenport asked me to drop his class and I told him no.Three days of successfully avoiding him. Or maybe he’s been avoiding me. Either way, I haven’t seen him since that awkward confrontation in his office. But I hear his name everywhere I turn o
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Elena Carson I don’t wait for him to say anything else before I walk out of his office. The door clicks shut behind me, and I keep walking, fast and angry. My heart is hammering so hard I can feel it in my throat. My cheeks are burning too and my hands won’t stop shaking. I just need to get the
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Elena Carson He wasn’t supposed to be here tonight.Killian Davenport straightens from the bar, his grey eyes locked on me like he’s trying to place something. My stomach flips violently. He starts walking toward me, slow and deliberate, like a predator who just spotted easy prey. I freeze
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Elena Carson The first time Killian Davenport broke my heart, I was thirteen years old. The second time happened tonight when his sister looked up from her phone and casually said, “My brother is back.” That was barely an hour ago, and my heart still hasn’t recovered. I swallow hard, staring a
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