All Chapters of Mated To My Hot Alpha Professor: Chapter 31 - Chapter 39

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KAIRAI woke up to someone shaking my shoulder insistently. My eyes struggled to open, still heavy with sleep. When I finally managed to pry them apart, Jessica's face was hovering inches from mine, way too close and way too energetic for whatever ungodly hour this was.I blinked at her, confused and disoriented. What was happening? Why was she waking me up? It felt like I had just fallen asleep minutes ago."Rise and shine, sleeping beauty," Jessica said with far too much enthusiasm. "We have training today, remember? I told you yesterday. 8am sharp."Training? oh right.The memory came flooding back. Jessica surrounded by sticks and makeshift weapons, throwing one at me and declaring we would start training today. I had been so caught up in everything with Professor Zane that I had barely processed it.I groaned internally and shook my head, pulling the blanket over my face. This was one of those days I really wished I could talk, just so I could tell Jessica exactly where she could

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KAIRAI stared at Draven, my mind going blank. What was I supposed to say? How was I supposed to explain why I hadn't replied to his messages when I didn't even have a good reason myself?My fingers hovered over my phone screen, but no words came. I just stood there, frozen, looking at him like an idiot."Oh, you don't have anything to say, right?" Draven said with a proud tone. "I win."That snapped me out of it. I shot him an angry look and started typing furiously on my phone.“How are you here?”I showed him the screen, my expression demanding an answer.He raised an eyebrow. "How am I here? I train here. I've been training here since whenever."I narrowed my eyes at him and typed again.“Did you follow me here?”"Follow you?" He laughed, "Lovie, I was here first. If anything, you followed me."I was about to type another question, something about why he was bothering me again, when he reached up and grabbed the hem of his shirt.In one smooth motion, he pulled it over his head an

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ALPHA ZANEThe moment I turned that corner and saw her, everything in me went still.She had nearly walked straight into me, her eyes wide with surprise, her cheeks immediately flushing pink. She was in training clothes, her hair slightly damp at the edges from exertion, and even like that, even caught completely off guard, she was the most distracting thing I had seen all morning.She held up her phone quickly. “Good morning, sir.”I gave her a nod. That was all I could give her out here, in the open, where anyone could see. I felt the coldness settle over my face the way it always did in public.Then I heard his voice."Good morning, Alpha Zane."Draven.I shifted my eyes to him. He was standing a few feet behind her, shirtless, because of course he was. I gave him the same curt nod and looked away. But then he stepped forward and took her hand, and something sharp moved through my chest.He was gentle about it, which almost made it worse. He just took her hand like it was the most

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KAIRAThe rain started, I heard it before I saw it, that sudden heavy sound against the windows, and I turned my head toward the glass just as Alpha Zane pushed the office door open and walked back in.I looked at him, then at the window and back at him.I picked up my phone."The rain started."My text to speech read it out into the quiet room and he glanced toward the window briefly, then back at whatever expression he was wearing, which was not surprise."Yes," he said. "It did." He added calmly.I looked at the window again, the rain was not polite about it either. It was the kind that came down all at once, no warning, no build up, just suddenly everywhere and loud against the glass.I turned back to my phone and typed."Where are the files? I can take them and bring them back tomorrow."He had moved to the other side of the desk by then and he glanced at my screen when I held it up. Something shifted in his face but he did not answer immediately."You can't go anywhere," he said

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KAIRAHe still held the door open and gave way for me to pass through first.I walked past him and as I did, I caught it from the corner of my eye. A flash of red across his eyes, quick and gone before I could properly look at it. It was probably just his body reacting to the rain. Alphas were like that sometimes, their eyes doing things in response to shifts in the environment, the cold, the pressure in the air, the particular kind of tension that came with a heavy downpour. I had read about it once, somewhere. I filed it away and kept walking."Straight down," he said from behind me.His voice was calm, like everything else about him. I started moving down the corridor and after a moment I became aware of how it felt to have him walking behind me instead of beside me. It was strange in a way I did not expect. Not uncomfortable exactly, just somehow weird. Then I remembered this morning, the flat look on his face when he saw me on the grounds. The single cold nod, the deliberate, w

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ALPHA ZANEI walked away from her door without looking back and that part was deliberate.I had learned a long time ago that the worst thing you could do in a moment that required control was to look back so I kept my eyes forward and my steps even and I put as much corridor between us as I could in the time it took to reach my own room.I closed the door behind me.My wolf kicked me the moment the latch clicked.It was not subtle about it either. It hit somewhere behind my ribs, sharp and insistent, the way it only did when it had an opinion it considered urgent and felt I was being too slow to act on.“What exactly do you mean by goodnight?”"Exactly what it sounds like," I said quietly.She is literally two rooms away. Two rooms, Zane. You could go back right now. You could end this tonight."End what?"You know what. Claim her. Make her yours. Stop performing this whole indifferent routine and just go and get her.I pressed two fingers against the bridge of my nose and stood in t

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ALPHA ZANEThe first thing I noticed when she opened the door was that she had changed and the second thing I noticed was what she had changed into.It was the nightwear, the one I had come to ask about, which meant I had my answer before I even opened my mouth, which also meant I had no real reason to be standing here anymore. But my brain had stopped processing useful information the moment my eyes moved from her face downward and found the thin fabric doing a very poor job of being fabric at her chest area.It was not scandalous, it was just slightly transparent, the kind of transparency that was easy to explain away in daylight and completely impossible to ignore at this hour, in this light, with her standing right in front of me. The shape of her breast was right there, all of it pointing directly at me like it had something to say.My chest did something it had no business doing and my body? It was doing worse so I pulled my eyes back up to her face and kept them there.She had

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KAIRAThe shirt came off his shoulders and I almost stopped breathing. I had seen men without shirts before. This was not new information for my eyes to process. But my eyes were being completely useless right now because they refused to move and they refused to behave and they were taking in every single detail of him like they were trying to memorize something they would never see again.The tattoos covered the left side of his chest and wrapped around his ribs and climbed partway up his shoulder, it was so detailed in a way that made my fingers itch. I could not even make out the full design from where I was standing and I already wanted to trace every line of it with my hand.I pulled my eyes up quickly but from the slight tilt of his head, it was not quickly enough. He was still talking, something about Draven, something about my concern and his concern and the building, but the words were arriving slightly delayed because half my brain was still stuck on the image in front of me

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ALPHA ZANEI carried her to the bed and set her down slowly, making sure her head found the pillow before I pulled back to look at her.Something had shifted in the last few minutes. Not just in the room, not just in the way she was looking at me. Something inside me had shifted too, I felt too relaxed especially for someone who wouldn’t stop thinking about everything.I hovered over her, one hand braced beside her head, and I let myself actually look at her. The low light in the room was doing things I was not going to think too hard about, and she was watching me with those eyes that had been quietly taking me apart since the first day she walked into my class and refused to look impressed.I reached out slowly and placed my hand flat against her chest, just over her heart, feeling the rhythm of it under my palm. It was fast. Fast and uneven, which meant she was not nearly as calm as she was trying to look. Good, because I wanted her just as ruined as I felt.A tiny, needy sound sli

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