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)
Behind her, the professor growled again, a raw, guttural sound, just before he pulled all the way out and thrust back into her full force.
Pleasure ripped through her, and Kassia came with a gasp, her eyes rolling back and her knuckles turning white at how hard she was gripping the edges. Through the endless waves of her orgasm the professor continued pounding into her until he, too, reached his peak. A rough sound escaped him as he came, his seed filling her until she could feel the rest of it dripping down her legs.
WHEN SHE OPENED HER eyes, she was alone in her bed, and the professor had changed back into a wolf. She saw something in its eyes, but before she could say something, the wolf had leapt out of her window and disappeared into the night.
There was something in her wolf’s eyes, she thought drowsily.
Something important...
But she was too tired to think of the answer, and her eyes slowly closed as she drifted back to sleep.
Rays of sunlight, unfiltered by her open windows, woke Kassia up the next day. Groaning, she forced herself to sit up while lifting one hand to shield her eyes from the sun’s merciless glare. Her lips curved in a helpless smile as memories of last night streamed into her consciousness, and her body stirred in hunger.
But then another memory danced in front of her—-
The professor in his Lyccan form just before he left—-
In a flash, everything became clear, and a cry escaped Kassia.
Yesterday she had been too tired to understand why that look in the wolf’s eyes had troubled her so, but now she knew. Just that one look, and it answered the rest of her questions. Why the professor had been a wolf since the moment she woke up, why the professor hadn’t wanted to talk about her confession the other night, and why he had been so darn sweet yesterday—-
Fear strangling her throat, she reached for her phone, fingers shaking as she typed a text message for the professor as quickly as she could.
Kassia: May I go to your office today, Professor?
The professor’s reply came a second later, and everything she feared came true.
Professor: I don’t think that’s a good idea.
Tears burned her eyes.
She remembered the look in the wolf’s eyes, and of course she knew now what it was. She knew now, when it was already too late. The professor had been telling her goodbye.
Kassia: This isn’t going to be forever, right?
Kassia: You’ll come back?
Kassia: Professor, please.
But there was no answer this time.
Chapter Six
“You look heartbroken,” Domenico commented when Alessandro entered his office.
His younger brother only shrugged, and the absence of any hotheaded response made Domenico frown.
Waiting until Alessandro was seated, he asked abruptly, “Something’s happened between you and Kassia?”
Alessandro’s lips twisted. “You speak as if you already know her.”
“I probably do,” Domenico answered, unruffled. “By knowing you, I already have a good idea about the kind of girl you’d fall for.” He saw his younger brother stiffen at his choice of words but when he didn’t refute it, Domenico realized that things had progressed further between Alessandro and his student.
This time, Domenico waited patiently, allowing the silence to continue.
“I get it now,” Alessandro heard himself say. He waited for his older brother to rub it in, but he didn’t.
Of course he didn’t.
This was the all-powerful and all-knowing Domenico Moretti, after all.
A few days ago, the words would’ve been sarcastic, but now it was the truth.
He did get it now, and because he did, he wished he had gotten it earlier.
Lifting his gaze to Domenico, he owed up to the truth, saying succinctly, “I get it now, and because I do, I know I fucked up.”
Ignoring his brother’s last words, he asked carefully, “What exactly do you get?”
Again, Alessandro’s lips twisted. “You want it in writing?”
“If you really get it now as you say, then you should know that I am still the brother you’ve always thought me to be. It would give me no pleasure at all to make you suffer endlessly.” Domenico’s eyes bored through him as he spoke.
The words struck home, and Alessandro grimaced. “Apologies.” He raked a hand through his hair, frustrated. “I only said that out of habit, and perhaps out of...fear.”
Finally, they were getting somewhere, Domenico thought. Leaning back against his seat, he asked again, “So...what do you ‘get’?”
“I get why you’ve changed, why you’re letting all those bastards think they’re stronger than you. You’re doing it to make it right for Misty, not just for her but for yourself and for the whole pack, too.” But all throughout it, he wasn’t remembering how it had been between Domenico and his human wife. Instead, he remembered his own human girl – the one who captured his heart the way Misty had captured Domenico’s.
Love, selfless and unlimited.