All Chapters of My Professor Owns My Nights : Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Mia's POV"There is nothing wrong with what you are doing," Lila said, pacing back and forth across the small room like she was the one with a decision to make. "You just have to sleep with someone you do not know to save your mother. One night, Mia. That is all." She added.I sat on the edge of my bed, watching her pace, and said nothing because honestly, what was there to say? She made it sound so simple, like picking up an extra shift at the restaurant or selling an old textbook."He is a stranger," she continued, stopping to look at me. "You will probably never see him again after tonight. One night and it is done. Your mother's bill gets paid and you are free.""You make it sound easy," I finally said."Because it is." She shrugged, sitting beside me. "People do harder things every day just to survive. This is survival, Mia. Nothing more."I did not respond. I just looked at my hands in my lap and let the silence say what I couldn't.She was not wrong about the survival part. I

Mia's POVHe looked at me for a moment after I said it, his expression completely unreadable, and then he just leaned back slightly and let out a slow breath through his nose."Okay," he said simply, and started to pull back.Something about how unbothered he was hit me harder than it should have. He was not angry, not pushing, not even disappointed. I do not know why that bothered me but it did because I had not come all this way, snuck out of my dorm, climbed a fence in heels, and sat in this room just to go back empty handed.My mother's face flashed in my mind. The hospital bed and te number on the bill.I ...I reached out and grabbed his arm before I could talk myself out of it and he stopped, looked down at my hand, then back at my face with one brow slightly raised.I did not wait for him to say anything. I leaned up and kissed him first.He was still for half a second and then he kissed me back, his hand coming up to grip my jaw, tilting my head exactly where he wanted it.Hi