Total pages in book: 103
Estimated words: 98496 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 492(@200wpm)___ 394(@250wpm)___ 328(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 98496 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 492(@200wpm)___ 394(@250wpm)___ 328(@300wpm)
Every day, she would attend his class, hoping that it would be the day the professor would realize she was different from the rest of his Beginner Italian class. That she was his most special apprentice in his extracurricular course of ookami-kata, which meant The Way of the Wolf, a special Japanese discipline of martial arts.
This morning, she had woken up after another deliciously wicked dream, and the truth had suddenly struck Kassia. Her dreams would stay just that – dreams – if she didn’t do something about it.
And so here she was now.
The professor suddenly stood, startling Kassia into almost taking a step back. His eyes had never burned such a bright shade of green before, and she found herself swallowing, wondering what that could mean.
He took a step closer to her, and another and another, and now Kassia was no longer breathing, her mind whirling as she tried to imagine what he would do. Laugh? Ridicule her? Or maybe sweep her into his arms and give her a happy-ever-after kiss?
All sorts of ideas ranging from mushy to crazy occurred to her, but what the professor ended up doing was the one thing that would never have occurred to her.
Kassia watched in fascination as the professor withdrew a piece of paper from his desk and carefully rolled it into a scroll.
And then he swatted her head with it, like she was no better than a kid who had been caught cheating.
“Ow!”
And just like that, the sensual mood she had worked so hard to create between them was dispelled.
Alessandro firmly reined in his urge to smile at the adorable look of frustration on Kassia’s face. “How can you even think of seducing me when you’re skating on thin ice on two of your subjects?”
Her eyes widened. “How do you—-oww!”
Damn. He had almost revealed his interest in her with that one. Scowling, he said, “It doesn’t matter how I know. What matters is that you focus on your studies.”
Even as the professor swatted her head for the third time, she insisted, “But I’m serious, Professor. I really, really—-”
He walked past her, heading to the door.
Holy cow! She couldn’t let him kick her out just like that. Kassia rushed after the professor, but he was already reaching for the knob.
“No!” she cried out, knowing it would all be over if he opened the door and all the students outside saw her inside his office.
Click.
Huh?
Alessandro turned back to Kassia after locking the door, savoring the look of confusion on her face. Giving her no time to think, he captured her wrist and whirled her around so he could lock her between his body and the wall behind her.
Kassia’s breath caught as the professor stared down at her, his eyes telling her better than any words could say exactly what he would like to do with her.
Goose bumps burst all over her skin, his proximity making every cell of her body hypersensitive and writhing for his touch. Her throat dried out, and she had to swallow convulsively before she could manage to say, “Professor—-”
Oh God, she couldn’t say anything else because he was already kissing her.
Professor Alessandro Moretti was kissing her, and she wasn’t dreaming.
It really was happening!
His lips moved over hers hungrily, possessively. Aside from the hand imprisoning her wrists behind her back, their lips were their only point of contact, with the professor scrupulously keeping his body away from her as he kissed her. Even so, it was more than enough, her whole body burning as his lips demanded the kind of entrance that she was oh so willing to give.
The professor groaned when Kassia’s lips parted in surrender, and she moaned with him as he painstakingly explored her mouth with his tongue.
“Please,” she begged when he gave her a moment to catch her breath, wanting more than just his kisses. She was so aroused now. She wanted everything.
His lips claimed hers again, and this time he was kissing her so forcefully his tongue almost reached her throat. It turned her on even more, and she struggled to lift her body towards his so she could finally feel his hardness against hers.
But still he resisted.
Desperate for more contact, Kassia instinctively sucked on his tongue.
The professor gasped in her mouth, releasing her with a wild look in his eyes. “Fuck.”
“Please!” Passion had totally overridden her sense of shame. She wanted him so badly.
The professor kissed her again, but this time it was rougher, wilder, and totally out of control. Kassia couldn’t have enough of it. She tried to suck on his tongue again but couldn’t, not when he was suddenly and already doing it to hers. Her mind whirled at the sheer pleasure of it, and the throbbing between her legs intensified.
“Do you want me?” he asked against her mouth.
When the professor lifted his head so she could breathe, Kassia whimpered out, “So much.”