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Chapter 4

ADRIA’S POV

“Definitely, she must have had a thing with the other history professor that made him always extremely commend her.” One said

“Yeah, while we were off in the library, reading hard, she was busy f**king the Professor, in return for an A. That’s disgusting.” Another replied.

There were so many messages, and I couldn’t help but scroll through them, all at once. Tears filled my eyes, and I tried hard to fight them back as I didn’t want to be seen as a weakling.

My friends began attacking them back on the group chat, and even at that, I still didn’t feel better. What had been said had been said, and Professor Lucien didn’t quite see me as the clever girl every Professor saw me as.

It meant it could be difficult for me to get an A if I don’t satisfy him with my answers. I watched as he walked out of the class, after teaching, and I couldn’t bear to stay in school for now, so I ran out of the class, and headed home.

I got home, and cried myself out, feeling bitter, and unable to come to terms with what had just happened. My mother walked into my room, and I wasn’t fast enough to clean my tears, so she saw me.

“Adria dear, what’s wrong?” She asked, with concern.

“I’m fine, mother. Nothing’s wrong.” I replied flatly as I felt a bit embarrassed to tell her the reason I was in tears.

“You know you can always talk to me, Adria.” She insisted, and smoothened my hair with her hand.

I felt a bit comforted, and hugged her, then busted out into tears again.

“For the first time, a Professor didn’t give me a good comment, and it’s not okay.”

My mother disengaged my head from her chest, and stared into my eyes.

“Adria, I understand how saddening it is for you, but I know my girl, she can always bounce back. I know you can convince that Professor that you are better than that.” My mother smiled, and gave me a kiss on my forehead.

Those words motivated me, and I felt better. I wasn’t going to back down, not so soon.

“Thank you, mom.” I appreciated her, and hugged her again, feeling much more energized, and ready to show Professor Lucien what I’m capable of.

The next day, I went to school, waiting for his class to begin, but then the course representative came out to pass an information.

“Professor Lucien will be having online classes with us for a week, so let’s make use of Zoom whenever we have his classes. I’ll be dropping the link on the group chat, so you all, have a nice day.”

I felt a bit disappointed as I wanted to show him how capable I was, physically, and not virtually, but then, it’s all the same.

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For days, we continued with the virtual classes, and unfortunately, all questions which I answered, always had something which Professor Lucien complained of, or deemed as a weak point.

It felt as if I was an unserious student, and the news about me, having sex with out former Professor got replaced with an assumption if I was losing my touch.

None of that news were happy ones, so I decided to do just one thing. I walked up to his office when he got back from his break or whatever it was, and knocked on the door.

“Come in.” 

His voice sent shivers down my spine, and made my tummy spiral. It was probably because I was no longer confident in my words when speaking to him, but today, I was going to get rid of it all.

“Good day, Professor Lucien.”

“Good day.” He replied, and focused all his attention on me.

I cleared my throat, and shook my head to get used to his weird stares so I could pass across the information I wanted to pass across to him.

“I came here to ask that you take me in as a learner in a wider knowledge on history. I want to know more about history, and I really do hope you can be a personal tutor to me.” 

Professor Lucien looked surprised, and I could tell he was speechless, but I hoped that he would agree to my request.

LUCIEN’S POV

I got back home after a long day at college, and the only thing that was on my mind was Adria’s request. I never expected her to request for me to be her personal tutor, and that was quite interesting.

I walked up to the dining table, and drank water to my fill, then walked upstairs to my bedroom to have a shower. I pulled off my clothes, and went into the bathroom to relieve myself of any tensed bones.

I turned on the shower, and the water sprouted on my hair, and drizzled down every part of my body. Adria’s thought popped up in my mind again, and I exhaled sharply.

Adria was just an epitome of beauty, and every time I set my eyes on her, I just couldn’t help but give her long stares. Was this how the mate draw felt? I couldn’t tell if she felt the same way about me.

What was even more baffling was why the moon goddess had to give me a human as a mate. She was certainly not going to be easily used to things of the supernatural world.

After taking a shower, I walked out of the bathroom, and put on my robe, then walked down back to the sitting room.

My phone began to ring, and it interrupted my thoughts. I discovered it was my beta who was trying to reach out to me, so I answered it immediately.

“Anything wrong?” I questioned as I got to the fridge, and brought out pineapple juice, and then got myself a glass cup.

“No, Alpha. I just wanted to inform you that it seems the full moon would come earlier than usual.”

“Oh, and how did you get that information?” I asked as I poured in my pineapple juice into the glass, not totally believing his information.

The full moon has never for once come out earlier than usual, because the way he was speaking, it seemed it was going to be much earlier than anyone could think of.

“I got the information from a soothsayer.” He responded calmly.

“Not even the royal soothsayer? Come on, Henry. You should know that any soothsayer apart from the royal one has the tendency to lie to you, and you have the audacity to give me something you haven’t confirmed?”

“Please don’t be annoyed, Alpha. The royal soothsayer is currently on a journey, so I couldn’t ask her, and that’s why I informed you in case of anything.” He apologized, and explained himself.

“Is there any other thing else which you want to inform me on?” I asked, and sipped the glass of juice.

“No, Alpha.”

“Alright, I’ll be at alert, and when I see signs of what you just said, coming true, I’ll know what to do.”

“Noted, Alpha.”

I hung up, and sighed, then stared into blank space. These were the things people like me go through, most of the time. And having a human mate was dangerous in this era. 

But then, I had so much desire in me to know more about her, and to be with her, so I’m hoping it’s going to be worth a try.