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last update Date de publication: 2024-12-14 20:58:22

Sage

The world was spinning around me as I stumbled through my front door, the taste of cheap alcohol was still bitter on my tongue.

The bar had offered me no solace, only the sense of emptiness that wrapped around me like a disease.

I dropped my keys on the counter, the sound echoing in the quiet of my apartment.

All I wanted was to escape, to wash away the humiliation and heartbreak that clung to me like my natural scent.

It wasn’t the brush off that made me upset, it’s the knowledge that
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  • The Professor Wants Me and So Does My Bestfriend   Epilogue

    River There are moments in life that feel like breathing again after being held underwater for too long. Moments that don’t announce themselves with fireworks or drama but with quiet, unwavering peace. This was one of them. The hospital room was bathed in warm afternoon light, the sound of faint birdsong slipping in through a cracked window. It was a rare kind of day—still, unrushed, and real. And I was alive to see it. Kaiden was sitting on the bed beside me, one leg propped up, a tray of half-eaten hospital pancakes in front of him. His hair was a mess, his stitches were healing, and his eyes still carried that untamed fire but it was softened now. Like the worst of the storm had passed, and he could finally breathe again. Sage sat curled up in the visitor chair, a blanket wrapped around him like a cocoon. He had color in his cheeks again. The bruises had faded. The shadows beneath his eyes weren’t as heavy. He was alive. He was safe. And somehow, despite everything, we were

  • The Professor Wants Me and So Does My Bestfriend   Back to the end of the beginning

    River Hospitals always had a strange smell. Antiseptic, floor polish, and quiet dread. It felt like I had spent so much time in the hospital. Ever since I became involved in Kaiden, it's been one hospital trip to the other. I truly hope that this will be the last one. I have seen so many strangers receive bad news all in the span of fifteen minutes. I was scared that the doctors would come and give me horrible news like they had been giving those strangers. This time, they weren’t strangers in those rooms. They were mine. Kaiden and Sage had each been taken into separate wings of the hospital the moment we arrived. Sage was still unconscious. Kaiden was pale and was rushed into trauma with blood still soaked through his shirt. I stood in the emergency ward’s hallway, my body stiff, my hands crusted with dried blood, his, theirs, mine. I hadn’t let the nurses check me. I didn’t care. I only cared about them. I needed them to be okay. The glass doors hissed open behind me, and

  • The Professor Wants Me and So Does My Bestfriend   The Reckoning

    River The engine roared beneath my hands like a beast unchained, and I gripped the steering wheel so tightly my knuckles went white. The tires screeched against the asphalt as I swerved onto the main road, heart pounding like a war drum inside my chest. Kaiden was in that car, bleeding, unconscious, slipping away by the second. And Raines was taking him to God knows what. My foot slammed harder against the gas. “You’re not getting away with this,” I muttered, eyes burning as the road twisted ahead. “Not this time.” The trees blurred past, and I leaned forward like I could will the car to go faster. I wasn’t thinking clearly, wasn’t thinking at all, honestly. I just saw Kaiden’s face when he crumpled to the ground. The way his body went limp in my arms. The blood in my hands and the instant fear that he won't make it. And now that bastard was running. Running with him. I gritted my teeth. Raines had already stolen too much from us, too much time, too much peace. He thought

  • The Professor Wants Me and So Does My Bestfriend   The man on the run

    River I wish I could say it went breezy like we had planned. We would just walk out of here alive with no one to stop us. I was wrong. I was deeply wrong. Every step we took crunched leaves beneath our feet, every heartbeat pounding in my ears like a war drum. Kaiden was right beside me, his jaw clenched, his hand steady against Sage’s limp body on my back as we moved deeper into the woods, away from the facility. We were close to freedom. Just a little further. But freedom, I’ve learned, never comes without a fight. It started with voices. Shouts in the distance. Then the piercing, commanding bark of Raines. “Secure the perimeter!” Kaiden froze beside me. My gut clenched. “No, no, no,” he muttered. “They weren’t supposed to know—” We both turned at the same time. Flashlights blazed through the trees, gun barrels gleaming beneath the moonlight. Before I could react, we were surrounded. A perfect circle of armed men closed in. Cold, ruthless eyes. Steady fingers on trigge

  • The Professor Wants Me and So Does My Bestfriend   Out of the dark

    River I was spiraling since I was left alone with Sage. He hadn’t spoken in hours. His face was too pale. His breathing shallow, lips parted as if halfway between a dream and the edge of death. I knelt beside him, pressing my palm gently against his cheek. “Sage,” I whispered. Nothing. “Come on, dammit. Wake up.” I shook his shoulder softly, then harder. “You hear me? You don’t get to give up now.” Still, he didn’t move. The drug had done its job too well. I exhaled through clenched teeth, sinking back against the stone wall of the cell. I hated this place, hated the damp smell, the metallic taste of rust, the faint buzzing of fluorescent lights overhead that made it hard to tell if it was day or night. But I waited. I had to. We couldn’t run now. Not in daylight, not through the open woods. That would be suicide. We’d wait for night. Wait for the dark to cloak us like an ally. And then we’d run. I watched the window. Already knowing it's pointless. I’d already scanned the

  • The Professor Wants Me and So Does My Bestfriend   No turning back

    Kaiden I wasn't one to give up. That's the one thing people found annoying about me. That and the fact that I always gathered attention. But giving up is for dead people. I know Raines was dirty and it was up to me to prove that. I'd gone back to the house in the woods, something was wrong. They didn't know I was coming with the detective so they were not tipped off. So I deduced that they were only operating at night. I decided that I would be smart about that this time around. This time, I didn’t get too close. I parked far off and moved on foot, quiet through the trees, heart pounding against my ribs like it wanted out. I’d dressed dark, layered in silence and paranoia. I found a thicket of brush that gave me just enough cover and sat low, watching through a pair of binoculars I borrowed, okay, stole from Bryan’s glove compartment earlier. There they were. People. Dozens of them just like the other night I was here. So many crates being loaded into two separate vehicles,

  • The Professor Wants Me and So Does My Bestfriend   A lesson in maturity

    Kaiden Walking into my apartment felt like stepping into a crime scene. The door creaked open, revealing a space that had been utterly torn apart. My couch was flipped over, my shelves emptied, their contents shattered across the floor. The kitchen drawers were pulled out, their contents spilled a

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  • The Professor Wants Me and So Does My Bestfriend   Like a princess

    SageI woke up the next day having rested my body. The first person I saw was the kind doctor who had treated me the last time. “We have got to stop meeting like this,”I looked at him, he was young and extremely handsome, I smiled. “I am sorry, I can’t help it.”His face turned serious, “what happ

    last updateDernière mise à jour : 2026-03-25
  • The Professor Wants Me and So Does My Bestfriend   Stolen Kisses

    KaidenI rubbed my hand up and down his back as he hiccuped, his body trembling against mine. He was hurting. Again.And yet again, here I was, comforting him.It sucked.It sucked because every single time, my own feelings got buried, shoved aside like they didn’t matter.Because to him, they didn

    last updateDernière mise à jour : 2026-03-24
  • The Professor Wants Me and So Does My Bestfriend   A roadside whore

    KaidenI didn’t know when I nodded. It was like my body made the decision before my brain could catch up. One moment, I was staring at him, caught in some hazy mix of resentment and something I wasn’t ready to name. The next, his fingers wrapped around my wrist and he was pulling me up from my sea

    last updateDernière mise à jour : 2026-03-23
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