The Professor and The Secret Alpha

ine on the

ould help smooth

uch as I always loved a little quiet here and there, the o

comes accompanied with sid

sit together a

here else even when

ely. So when my department meeting wrapped up forty minutes early on Thursday, I stopped at

like I was finally

p. We could talk and I'd let him pour out all his

ched our room, when

ds, to perhaps convince myself that what I was

me the confirmation I needed to know

But nothing prepared me for the sight of my fiance Adria

ommendation letter I had spent an entire Sunda

color drained out of

her for one

ut," I

nt door clicked shut behind her like a period at the end of a sentence, and then it wa

at broke something open in my chest - quietly, almost cleanly, t

he absen

ad been caught doing somet

recali

e a few steps ah

s not make this into s

id. "I'm listening. I'd really love to get

ond discussing literature over dinner with someone who has already mentally left the room. I have spent two years trying to reach you

fuck does

s like being in a relationship with a woman as cold as you? A woman who has no sin

.i bright wine." I said helplessly not knowing what else to

that classroom. I have watched your students lean forward when you speak like you are the only thing in the room worth listening to. And then you walk through that front door and it is lik

d not

ke me like a man. She looks at me with passion and the times I've spent

niture, Lila. I am not something you keep around f

we understood each other....but he was just lying t

g the guts to stand there and poi

y hands too shaky I had to carefully set

told me you were

s, and all three times you nodded, said you understood, and went back to your work." He looked at me steadily. "It's almost like you

would have been devastated, but I would have respected you for it. Instead you slept with someone I mentored, in our bed, and now you're standing here expla

. "I never called

where it landed. "You just told me your hands ended up on my assistant because of

mouth and cl

chosen by me because I had told him once that I liked things understated and h

the dresser beside his watch

ay someone and then calmly explain why it was justified." I looked at him one last tim

from the entryway floor, and took the wine with me because I had