Filed To Story: Falling for the Alpha As a Student Novel
“I can’t help it,” I whispered in return. “What makes you so confident about flying anyways?” I asked him.
“It’s not my first time flying,” he answered.
“How many times have you flown?” I found myself asking.
“Enough times to be confident.”
I couldn’t help but roll my eyes at him as I looked away.
I nearly jumped out of my skin as I felt the plane jerk forward. I quickly grabbed onto the armrests, not realizing that Enzo’s arm was right there, so I grabbed onto his arm firmly.
He stared at me with a wary expression for a moment, but he didn’t say anything as I continued to dig my claws into his arm.
Soon, the plane was going faster and faster and it took everything, I did to not scream in fear.
“Will you just relax?” Enzo muttered from beside me.
He reached into his bag on the ground and pulled out a neck wrest pillow, along with some earbuds and an eye mask.
Was he seriously about to take a nap right now?
That selfish jer—
Before I could finish my thought, he was putting the neck pillow around my neck and shoving the earbuds into my ears.
He started playing some lovely classical music on his phone.
Then he put the eye mask over my eyes so I couldn’t see anything. I was closed in my own little dark world. Nothing could hurt me, and Val was feeling incredibly relaxed as well.
“Finally…” Enzo muttered. “I can get some peace.”
His voice faded out as the music grew louder; I wanted to scold him for treating me like a child, but I felt incredibly relaxed so I couldn’t be too mad.
I felt the plane lifted into the air, but I couldn’t see anything.
This was it… it was on my way to Monstro.
With Enzo.
…
At some point during the flight, I fell asleep. When I woke up, it was nighttime. I took the eye mask off my face and peered around the plane. It looked like the majority of everyone was fast asleep. There was a blanket draped over me that wasn’t there before I fell asleep.
The only one who seemed to be awake still was Enzo.
“Did you sleep at all?” I asked in, keeping my tone low so I wouldn’t disturb anyone else.
“A little,” he said, not looking at me. “I don’t sleep well on planes.”
“Do you want the eye mask? It helps,” I said, handing it over to him.
He didn’t take it.
“It’s fine,” he muttered. “You should get more sleep.”
“I slept a lot already,” I told him. “I’m sorry my father made you come with me.”
I felt a sense of guilt knowing that Enzo has so much going on already and now he was stuck traveling across the world to babysit me.
“Don’t be. I could use a vacation.”
I stayed silent for a moment longer.
“I never got a chance to thank you,” I said, peering over at him.
“For what?”
“That painting. I saw it after you left. It’s really beautiful,” I told him, feeling my face growing warm.
“It wasn’t really much of anything. I had the artists at the studio paint it after your portrait got destroyed.”
“It was incredibly sweet of you to think of me.”
My wolf was practically begging to be released; she was in sweet bliss being this close to him. I knew she was starting to doubt him before our flight. But once she saw him on the plane, she was very pleased.
That made me happy, but it also worried me at the same time.
Was his motive to be closer to me as his mate? Or was he just doing what my father asked of him?
Hours later, the plane was landing, and we were on the ground safely. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t relieved. The sun was up by the time we landed and everybody leaving the plane looked exhausted.
“Lila!!” I heard my name being called across the airport once we got off the terminal.
I saw Cassidy-Ann rushing toward me with a wide smile on her face. She already looked tan from her time here.
“I’m so glad you’re here. I’ve been going crazy without my assistant,” she said, hugging me tightly.
She released me and glanced up at Enzo.
“Hello, Alpha. I heard you would be here as well,” she said, smiling at Enzo. “I took it upon myself to book you both a shared room.”
What?!
Lila’s POV
“Did you just say a shared room?” I asked in shock, staring at my boss with wide eyes.
Enzo was incredibly quiet as he stood behind me and I wouldn’t dare look at his face.
Why would she book us a room to share? Didn’t she know he was my professor? I couldn’t share a hotel room with my professor for two months. She must have been out of her mind.
I tried desperately to ignore Val’s cooing, but it was all I could hear, and it was rattling my brain.
“It’s a sign from the moon goddess, Lila!” Val squealed. “We are meant to be together!!”
“Val, this isn’t good. If word got out that we are sharing a room with our professor…”
“We are across the world, Lila. Nobody is going to find out anything unless you tell them.”
A knot had formed in my stomach; I couldn’t believe this was happening to me right now. Word was bound to get to my parents. I couldn’t speak to them on the phone without them finding out about this.
Cassidy-Ann just laughed.
It’s a hotel suite with two rooms; you two can relax,” she chuckled.
I sighed in relief; it was still going to be weird sharing a suite with him, but it could have been a lot worse.
“You should have seen your faces,” she continued to laugh.
Enzo just rolled his eyes and began walking toward the baggage claim without saying a word. Cassidy-Ann just watched after him with a frown on her face.
“He doesn’t have much of a sense of humor,” she said, shaking he head with dismay on her face. “I’m sorry you have to deal with that the entire trip.”