Tessa’s POVI felt sick to my stomach. I didn’t want to sit in this office any longer. She was now working on her computer, and I was frozen to the seat, staring at her with a dumbfounded expression on my face.She glanced at me with a frown.“You may leave now; I have some work to do. But thank you, Tessa, for speaking with me. I quite enjoyed this talk.”I still remained seated; I was unable to feel my body. It seemed as if Miss Emily was going to start pursing Joseph and she was warning me to stay away from him. But I couldn’t have understood that correctly. I never gave her a reason to believethere was anything going on between Joseph and me.Miss Emily was very beautiful; that was obvious from the moment I met her. But would Joseph really go for her?I felt my face flaring; I had to shake the thought out of my head before I lost my mind.I stood to my feet and forced a smile at her.“Thank you, Miss Emily,” I said to her.I left without another word.I wanted to crawl into a ball
Tessa’s POVI shouldn’t have gone to bed so early. Now I was awake in the middle of the night with a stomach that wouldn’t stop growling. I hadn’t even eaten dinner.I wondered if Joseph had eaten anything last night. I didn’t cook for him but he’s not incompetent that he couldn’t cook his own meal. In fact, Joseph was an impressive cook.Going to bed last night was the only thing my mind could truly do. I wrote a new blog post, something that I probably should have kept in my journal, and then I crawled into bed and fell asleep. I didn’t even say anything to Joseph yesterday, so I’m sure he knew that I was upset.I just couldn’t get that conversation with Emily out of my head. She has real feelings for him and she’s beautiful. She would be more than just a one-night stand and it’s not just her blood that attracts him.Although, he told me that he doesn’t feel that attraction towards her, yet he could have been saying that to make me feel better.I shouldn’t even be this upset over it
Joseph’s POV“We ran the fingerprints again, just like you asked. But once again, they came back inconclusive,” Chief Mulligan said on the phone.I grew aggravated and clenched my phone tightly in my hands until my knuckles grew white. I had left Tessa in the kitchen only moments ago to go into my study and call the Nightwalker headquarters.“These vampires might be new, but they are smart. They are covering their tracks well,” Mulligan continued. “We need to figure out a plan to trap them.”“Whatever the plan is, it’s not going to include Tessa,” I said for the hundredth time.I rubbed the bridge of my nose with my pointer finger and my thumb, trying to ease some of the tension.“It might come to that—”“No!” I growled, stopping his words short. I felt a wave of fury cross me and I had to step back and recollect my thoughts.Calmly I added, “We are not going to use her for any part of this plan. Tessa stays out of it. That was our agreement.”“Then we will figure out another way,” Mu
Joseph’s POV“I’m afraid you are mistaken, Miss Parker,” I said, stepping into the room and closing the door behind me.She was trembling in the bed, her lips quivering.“No, I’m not!” She yelled. “You’re a vampire. You have the same darkness as the others!! You’re one of them. Th…the dudes who attacked me…”Tears spilled from her eyes.“I assure you, I am not here to hurt you,” I said, stepping closer to her bed.She recoiled, but she was hooked up to a bunch of machines, so she wasn’t able to go anywhere.“Please…” she begged. “Please leave me alone.”Once I reached her bed, I lowered myself, so I was at eye level with her.“I’m not here to hurt you, Miss Parker. Due to the trauma, you are very confused. My name is Dr. Evergreen. I’m only here to evaluate you,” I said to her, narrowing my eyes at her feeling her mind being hooked.She fell silent and her shaking was growing less apparent.“Oh…” she breathed, still keeping her eyes locked on mine.“There are no such things as vampire
Tessa’s POVI hadn’t seen or spoken to Brian since I told him to leave me alone. I thought that I had finally gotten through to him when I told him that our relationship was never going to continue.Brian and Amanda never came to the library, which meant they saw us through the window and decided to come in to harass us.I looked up at Joseph who was staring at Brian with an expression I couldn’t read. He was calm though and I don’t think he was very worried.Amanda’s red lips were thinned out in a line as she folded her arms across her chest.“Are you really hanging out together publicly at school? Shouldn’t you be doing this more privately? Considering your relationship is a secret after all,” she sneered. Her icy blue eyes narrowing at me.I swallowed the solid lump that formed in my throat. I wished I could be as calm and collected as Joseph, but I could feel my body trembling.Before I could say anything, Brian stepped around her, shielding her view of me.“Is what Amanda tells m
Tessa’s POVIt felt like we were only working in the library for an hour at most, but when I looked out the window, I saw that the sun was completely down. Which meant it’s been a few hours. Telling from the look the librarian was giving us, it was also closing time.Joseph was in the middle of explaining something else he noticed with my blog.“It seems you hold back a lot. Like you are afraid of upsetting your audience. Leave that mindset behind and don’t worry about what others think. The right ones will fall in line and love what you have to say—”“I’m sorry, Professor,” the librarian said as she approached us. She was kind with warm brown eyes and long brown hair that she had tied in a low ponytail. “But I’m afraid I’m just about to close for the evening. But you can return tomorrow.”“We were just finishing up,” Joseph said to her, returning her smile. “We won’t be much longer.”She nodded and went back to her desk to finish her end-of-the-day paperwork.I started to close my no
Tessa’s POVMy heart stopped beating.Jolene didn’t look phased, but she did smile politely at me.“It’s so very nice to meet you, sweetheart,” she said. “What can I get you for food?”I was at a loss for words. I looked at Joseph who only had an amused look on his face. He was holding back a laugh. He was doing this on purpose to make me squirm.But why?What was the purpose of that??I didn’t even realize that Jolene was talking to me until Joseph cleared his throat loudly, momentarily bringing me out of that trance.I looked up at her, trying to fixate my eyes on her face.“What are you ordering?” She asked again.Oh, right… I needed to order.Though, I wasn’t so sure I’d be able to stomach anything right now. I was starving, but that hunger quickly went away as soon as those words left Joseph’s mouth.His girlfriend.What the hell was he thinking?If word got around school about that, he could kiss his career goodbye. I could kiss my reputation goodbye as well.Not that I had much
Tessa’s POVFinally.It was Saturday. I didn’t need to get up early. I didn’t have to go to school. I could just stay in bed for a little longer.I hadn’t been sleeping all that well since my lunch hour talk with Emily Thorton.Even though Joseph told Emily he wasn’t on the market anymore, I don’t think Emily would give up that easily.Joseph also told me we shouldn’t cross the boundary of professor and student.Now I wasn’t dating Joseph, so I didn’t have much of a reason to be upset. I once had sex with him but at the time I didn’t know he was my professor. My face warmed at the very memory.I often thought about that night and what would have happened if he wasn’t my professor. Would I have seen him again? Would we have continued that sexual relationship? Or would it become more?Nothing… I told myself. I wouldn’t have become anything. It was just a one-night stand. I thought he was a callboy for crying out loud. I tried to pay him!Suddenly, I felt embarrassed. My face was warm fo