INICIAR SESIÓNSianna’s PovRichard Mulet came to my office on a Thursday in February.I didn’t see him arrive. My assistant just knocked and said, “A gentleman’s here, he says he’s expected,” and then he was in the doorway in his dark coat with his hat in his hand, looking around my small office like he was inspecting it.I stood up so fast my chair rolled back into the wall.“Mr. Mulet.”“Sianna.”“Please, sit. Can I get you coffee?”“No. I won’t be long.”He looked older. Tired around the eyes. Nothing like the man who’d shouted in my flat.“My wife told me you left the university,” he said.“Yes.”“She told me you didn’t have to.”“I wanted to.”“Hm.” He turned his hat in his hands. “I never called the dean.”“I figured.”“You did?”“He’d have said something.”“I meant it at the time. I sat in my car outside the golf club with my phone in my hand for forty minutes.” His mouth twisted. “And I kept thinking about the day I gave you that envelope. How for once in years I felt like a father who hadn
Sianna’s PovI waited.I wish I could say it was brave, but mostly it was just quiet.The first week, I kept doing everything I normally did, only slower. I woke up, drank coffee, went to the faculty, taught my lectures, came home. Monday, Wednesday and Friday at five o'clock, my body still got restless, like it was waiting for something. I'd look at my watch and think, he's sitting down at the table right now. Then I'd remember he wasn't.The envelope was the worst part.It sat on my kitchen counter for three days. I couldn't open it, and I couldn't throw it away. On the fourth day I took it to the post office, and I wrote on the back of a card, I can't accept this. I'm sorry for everything. Sianna. The woman behind the counter asked if I wanted it tracked. I said yes. She asked if I wanted a signature on delivery."No," I said. "Just put it in the box.""Are you sure? It's a lot of money.""I know," I said. "That's why."I walked out and stood outside the post office for a few minut
Sianna’s PovNobody moved.The knocking came again, harder. Nico looked at me, and I looked at the door, and for a second I really thought about climbing out the window."Sianna, I'm not leaving.""Let me," Nico whispered when I took a step."No. It's my flat." I wiped my face with both hands, which didn't help at all, and opened the door.Mrs. Mulet stood on my landing in her coat, holding her handbag in front of her like a shield. No makeup, hair pulled back. She looked ten years older than she did on Sunday. She didn't say a word. She just looked past me, and her eyes landed on her son."Mom.""Don't," she said. "Not yet."She came in. She looked at my small couch, the takeaway boxes on the table, his jacket thrown over the chair, and I watched her take in every single thing."I want to say something first," she said. "And I want both of you to let me finish.""Okay," I said."I knew."My stomach dropped."Not for sure. But I suspected. At dinner, when you said it was warm and I tu
Sianna’s PovI followed Mr. Mulet down the hall like I was walking to my own funeral.His study was big and dark, with a heavy desk and a wall of framed certificates. He closed the door and told me to sit. I sat. He didn't. He went to the window and stood there with his back to me for what felt like an hour."Sir, if this is about...""Let me speak first, please.""Okay."He turned around. His face was tired, not angry. I didn't know what to do with that."My son has not passed a single exam in two years," he said. "Two years. I've hired five tutors. The last one lasted two days. I had stopped hoping, to be honest.""Mr. Mulet...""His marks came back on Friday. Seventy-one in the mock exam." His voice cracked a little on the number. "Seventy-one. He showed me himself. He walked into my office and put the paper on my desk and didn't say a word, and I almost cried like an old woman."I couldn't say anything."I don't know what you did," he said. "But I want to thank you. Properly." He
Sianna’s PovI didn't say anything.That was the answer, and Tessa knew it. I watched her face go through about five different things, shock first, then something like fear, then she pressed her lips together and looked at the table."Oh, Sianna.""I know.""Sianna.""I know, Tess, I know what you're going to say.""He's your student.""He's twenty-two. He's not a kid, he's in his final year, and he doesn't even go to my university.""That's not the point." She rubbed her forehead. "His parents are paying you. They hired you. If they find out...""They won't find out.""People always say that.""I'm being careful.""Are you?" She looked up. "Because you've been glowing for a month and I figured it out in two minutes. What do you think his mother is going to figure out?"I had nothing to say to that.She was quiet for a bit. Then she sighed, and her shoulders came down, and she reached across and took my hand again."Do you like him?""I don't know.""Sianna.""Yes." It came out small.
Sianna’s PovI pulled my jacket over my chest, Nico dived into the footwell, and I wound the window down about three inches.“Yes?”The security guard was older, maybe fifty, with a big torch and a face that had seen it all. He looked at me, then at the fogged-up windows, then at the very obvious pair of shoes sticking up from the back seat.“Ma’am, the car park is closed.”“Oh, I’m so sorry, I didn’t know.”“There’s a sign.”“I didn’t see it.”“It’s a big sign.”“I’m really sorry.”He kept looking at me. I kept smiling like an idiot. Behind me I could hear Nico trying very hard not to breathe.“You have five minutes,” the guard said finally. “And ma’am?”“Yes?”“Fix your collar.”He walked off. We waited until his steps were gone, and then Nico came up from the footwell with his hair everywhere and we both lost it. I laughed so hard I had to put my head on the steering wheel. He was wheezing in the back seat saying “fix your collar” over and over, and it took us a full ten minutes to
Emma's Pov I woke up to sunlight and a splitting headache. For one blissful second, I didn't remember. Then it all came crashing back. Professor James. My dining room. My mother's hand in his. "We're getting married." "Fuck," I groaned. I was still in my party clothes, makeup smeared, ha
Emma's Pov "Oh my God, did you see what Jessica wore to graduation?" Ashley's voice cut through the morning chaos outside the ceremony hall. I barely registered it. My mind was somewhere else entirely. "Ashley, stop," I muttered, adjusting my cap for the hundredth time. "What? I'm just sayin
Emma’s Pov “I can’t believe we’re actually graduating today!” Ashley screamed, throwing her arms around me so hard we nearly toppled over in the hallway. I laughed, steadying both of us against the lockers. “Ash, calm down. We still have one final exam to get through.” “I know, I know, but sti
Emma’s Pov His fingers shoved my skirt up roughly, bunching it around my waist. No teasing, no gentleness—just raw need. He cupped my pussy through my soaked panties, pressing the heel of his palm hard against my clit while two thick fingers dragged along my slit, feeling how drenched I already wa







