Semua Bab The Alpha Professor’s Cursed Mate : Bab 1 - Bab 10

TALIAEveryone says twins are inseparable, but all my life, I’ve felt like the shadow to Tessa’s sun. We were meant to be equal, but she got the spotlight, and I got… nothing.“Happy birthday to you…”Through the closed door of my room, I heard my parents singing, their voices off-key but very loud. They were obviously heading straight for Tessa’s room.I counted to five. Right on cue, her voice rang out, sounding surprised, as if this same ritual didn’t happen every single year.“Mum! Dad!” she squealed, clapping her hands. “You remembered!”“Of course we remembered,” my mother cried. “Happy birthday, sweetheart.”I rolled my eyes and dragged myself out of bed. There was no point in waiting around as they wouldn’t be stopping by my room. They never did. For years now, they had conveniently forgotten that Tessa and I shared a birthday.Last year, she got a brand-new phone. As an afterthought, I got her old one, the screen so cracked and scratched that I suspected she had smashed it on

TALIA“Why did you do that?!”My mother screamed at me, but her voice barely registered in my ears. I couldn’t stop reliving those moments after Ethan’s rejection. The way the crowd had jeered, how the students had laughed, phones recording every humiliating second. By now, the videos were probably everywhere.I had no memory of how I’d escaped. One moment I was drowning in a sea of humiliation; the next, I was curled up in the broom closet, crying in pain, tearing at my hair, praying the janitor wouldn’t come and make me leave.I had stayed there until the final bell rang and I had to come backNow I was home. But the torture wasn’t over, not even close.“I knew it the moment I woke up this morning,” my mother spat, her face red with anger. “Something told me you’d find a way to ruin Tessa’s birthday, and you did! You’ve ruined her entire day!”A loud crash sounded from upstairs, drowning her words. It was Tessa throwing a tantrum, and wrecking her room. Or maybe she was destroying

TALIAI was dreaming. I had to be.I sat, frozen in my chair, my heart pounding in my chest. I couldn’t blink, couldn’t breathe- just stared at the professor now standing with his hands clasped behind his back at the front of the classroom.My hand crept into my lap, and I pinched myself hard, but the professor’s form and shape didn’t waver. It was him all right. My mate.“Cassian Lennox…” I murmured under my breath.I felt, rather than saw, Ruby throw a sharp, questioning glance in my direction."Morning, professor," the students were saying.My own mouth seemed to be glued shut. I could not have made a sound even if I wanted to. My wolf thrashed restlessly inside me, longing to go to him. I curled my fingers around the edge of my desk to keep myself planted in my chair.From the looks of him, he couldn’t be more than twenty-five years of age. I wondered where he was from. Maybe from another pack because I didn’t think he was part of ours.My heartbeat quickened as he nodded in re

TALIA"Good afternoon, Mrs. Westwood.""Hello, Ruby!" mother called, turning in her chair and beaming at Ruby, who had just walked through the front door.I uncrossed my fingers and exhaled. I still didn't know why I kept getting tense whenever Ruby came to visit. I supposed I had just grown used to my parents criticizing everything I did.Ruby was the exception though.My mother was always sweet and kind to Ruby. She seemed to like her much more than she did me, her own daughter. I knew why.My best friend’s parents were very wealthy. Ruby's father was the CEO of Fex Textiles, and if there was anything my parents loved more than Tessa, it was building connections. It was why they had been over the moon when my twin started dating Ethan, the Alpha's son.Mother, still smiling, dropped her knitting in her lap to ask Ruby how her parents were."Very well, Mrs. Westwood," Ruby replied politely. "They send their regards.""Oh, wonderful," my mother exclaimed, rubbing her hands together."

TALIAI was walking and then running down the school’s hallway, which for some reason was deserted. Behind me, I could hear someone struggling to catch up with me.“Come back here!” a voice, that I realized was Tessa’s, shrieked. “Come back here now! Let me smear your face with lipstick and sauce. A pig will always be a pig!”“Talia!”My eyes flew open and the dream shattered around me like glass.“Talia, wake up!”The voice was real now, and it was Ruby's. Still half caught between sleeping and waking, I blinked and focused on the face leaning above me.“What are you doing in my house so early?” I asked groggily, rubbing my knuckles over my eyes. “And why are you screaming?”“It’s not early, Talia," Ruby said with a sigh. "It’s 10 a.m. already. Besides, I have new information about Cassian.”I sat up so quickly that Ruby grinned.“What information?” I asked, clutching Ruby’s arm, my heart pounding with excitement.“We are going to number two today, which is ‘learn your target’s routi