All Chapters of Sex With The Ruthless Alpha Professor : Chapter 111 - Chapter 113

Rose’s POV The first morning after the board’s determination felt wrong before I even opened my eyes.For a few slow, half-conscious seconds, I drifted in that warm, blurred place between sleep and waking where habit still ruled the body. My face was tucked against Jason’s chest. One of his arms lay heavy across my waist. His heartbeat moved under my cheek in that steady, familiar rhythm I had learned to orient myself by. Outside, rain tapped softly at the windowpanes, softer than the storm of the day before, more like a lingering memory than weather.And then I remembered.Four weeks.No public closeness on academy grounds.No private office doors closing behind us.No hand at the small of my back while we crossed the courtyard.No visible version of us where the institution could call it complicit.The ache of it arrived all at once—clean, immediate, disproportionate in a way that embarrassed me until I remembered I had every right to be upset by something that would change the sha

Rose's POV I crossed the road toward him slowly, letting myself feel each step.The academy gates stood behind me now, old iron and older stone, still visible over my shoulder if I turned. Inside them was scrutiny, procedure, rumor, caution, all the machinery of an institution trying belatedly to define a line it should have drawn long ago. Outside them was evening air cooling against my skin, the faint scent of coffee and damp brick, and Jason waiting under the café awning like the last steady thing at the end of a difficult day.He saw the smile before I reached him.I knew because something in his face softened immediately—not dramatically, not enough that a stranger would notice, but enough that the bond answered with a low, warm pulse of relief. He pushed away from the wall just as I stepped beneath the awning, and for one suspended second we simply stood there, looking at each other in the soft gold of the hour.“There you are,” he said quietly.The words landed deeper than the