Filed To Story: Falling for the Alpha As a Student Novel
“I’ll try my best,”
he said.
“And after, we should talk,”
I said to him, giving him a sly smile. “You and Sarah work things out?”
He looked down at his feet, his cheeks tinting pink.
“Maybe,”
he admitted. “Definitely an outcome I didn’t expect. But yeah, we can talk about it tomorrow.”
I nodded in agreement and took a deep breath.
I imagined everyone regaining their will to move again and the hours of a clock ticking forward before saying, “Unfreeze.”
“You were actually sleeping with the professor,”
Sarah finished her sentence before I froze her. “This is seriously rich.”
“Sarah, please stop,”
Brody said, facing her.
She looked at him, startled.
“Did you know about this?”
She asked him and for a moment, I saw a flash of hurt through her eyes.
He sighed and nodded.
“Lila is one of my best friends, of course I knew.”
“That’s she’s fucking the professor?”
Sarah scoffed, folding her arms across her chest.
“It’s more than that,”
I blurted before Brody could dig himself into a deeper hole. She flashed me a devilish look.
“Oh, is it?”
She said, raising her right brow. “Do tell. I’d love to hear your sex story.”
“We are mates,”
I said quickly.
Her mouth dropped open as she stared at me; then she looked up at Enzo who ran his hand behind his neck awkwardly and nodded in agreement.
“Mates?”
She asked, now flashing between the two of us. “Like goddess given mates?”
“Yes,”
we both said at the same time.
Enzo wrapped an arm around me, and I stepped into his warm and soothing embrace, snuggling against him.
“Holy shit,”
she breathed.
“If anyone knew about this, we could both get into huge trouble,”
I said, shaking my head. “Something like this needed to be reported from the beginning and it wasn’t. Either Enzo or I would have needed to be transferred to a new school and neither of us wanted that.”
“What are you going to do when you get married?”
Sarah asked, raising her brows.
She sounded genuinely curious.
“By then I’ll be a graduate,”
I explained. “It won’t matter anymore.”
“You are going to wait that long to marry?”
She asked.
I saw Brody tensing from beside her; it was at that moment Brody realized his mate wanted to marry sooner rather than later. I tried to stifle a laugh by chewing the inside of my cheek.
“We agreed to not marry until after I’m able to graduate. I want to finish my education before I become a Luna,”
I explained.
“Look, you girls really need to get inside before your dorm advisor finds out you aren’t there; if she hadn’t already,”
Enzo interrupted our conversation.
Sarah groaned miserably.
“Please, Eilleen Carter is the least threatening person at this school. She’s a bear for crying out loud,”
she muttered.
“Bears can be tough,”
I said, thinking about Rachel who was the toughest bear I knew.
Sarah rolled her eyes.
“Okay look; I’m not wanting to get in trouble for being out here because I’m grounded. So, let’s just pretend we didn’t see one another.”
I raised my brows in surprise.
“Really?”
I asked hopefulness in my tone.
Brody was grinning from beside her as she glanced at him; at that point, I saw her face redden as they made eye contact.
“Yeah,”
she muttered, looking back at me. “I didn’t see you and you didn’t see me. Okay?”
This was unusual; last year, she would have jumped at the opportunity to report me. But now that she knew she was mated to Brody, who happened to be one of my best friends, she seemed less inclined to get me in trouble.
“She just doesn’t want to get in trouble herself,”
Val muttered. “Don’t let her selfishness blind you.”
“You’re right,”
I agreed. “I shouldn’t be so naive. Sarah will never change her ways. Not even for her mate.”
I had to make sure Brody knew that. But not right now; it had to wait until later. Right now, I needed to get to my dorm.
I turned back to Enzo and kissed him gently on the lips.
“I love you,”
I said to him.
“And I you,”
he said in return.
“Wow,”
Sarah said, creasing her brows together. “I’ll never get used to that sight.”
She turned to Brody, her face reddening.