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The Professor's Second Chance Mate Chapter 9
Suddenly, I didn’t think I could handle a second rejection. I knew that Maya hoped I wouldn’t rashly reject this one. Second chance mates were rare, but third chance mates were impossible. I could take a chosen mate, but people say it’s not the same as that fated mate connection blessed by the moon goddess. Maya spent the last hour and a half begging me to give him a chance. So, for now, I’d agreed not to reject him immediately, yet that didn’t settle my nerves that he would want to get rid of me.He’s probably planning how best to murder me and get away with it right now. Just talk to him. You’re spiraling, Maya huffed. Instead, I chose to do the super mature thing: I ran away. As I strode to the door, a hand struck out and grabbed my arm. Dropping my bag in surprise, I turned to glare at the jerk who grabbed me, ready to give him a piece of my mind. It wasn’t him. My mate. This was some other guy. I took note of his hoodie with the school logo, an athlete of some kind probably. H
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I don’t know when I fell asleep exactly. It was dark outside when I woke up. Thankfully, the headache was gone. Sometimes my migraines last for days. I was glad this wasn’t one of those times. I felt surprisingly well rested. Goddess, what was I going to do about my mate? My mate who most likely wanted to kill me. You’re spiraling again, Maya’s sleepy voice disturbed my inner ramblings. Yep, I was, but not without reason, right? Right? I could sense Maya’s annoyance with me. She had every right to be frustrated with me. Hell, I was frustrated with myself. Honestly, though, why would a second chance mate land in my lap right now. I barely dealt with the last one.I hadn’t been able to get him out of my head all day. Hell, even my room smelled like him: delicious, addictive, earthy, spicy. Amazing. Like a warm spring day… Fuck! My room smelled like him! Why did my room smell like him? I bolted upright in bed so quickly that my head ached a little. My eyes scanned my dark room and
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When I woke from the best sleep I’ve ever had, I noticed the indigo sky tinged with silver outside my window. Soft light was beginning to dilute the night sky, preempting the rising dawn.I felt him, my mate, stir beside me. I rolled in his arms and came face to face with his hungry, hypnotic eyes. Such intensity.Nothing had happened last night, nothing sexy anyway. Still, this was a huge step forward for me. I’d never even had a boyfriend. I’d certainly never woken up with a man in my bed before, even a fully dressed one. And this particular specimen of a man was driving my every sense wild.My cheeks heated rapidly when he kissed my forehead softly.“I love that blush. Maybe I should call you little red,” he teased.“I could call you my big bad wolf,” I joked back.Fu@k, that was cheesy. Did I seriously just say that out loud?Yeah, you did. Maya laughs at me. Sometimes it’s not so fun having a second consciousness in your head to call your corny out. “Darling, you call me whateve
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Throughout the day, my mind was swirling with thoughts of a certain handsome professor. It made concentrating on my economics, and marketing classes difficult.When I was done with the day's classes, I headed back to my room to get ready for my first ever date. It wasn’t until after I’d showered and agonized over an outfit for way too long, that I realized I hadn’t checked my phone since yesterday afternoon. I had no idea where or when exactly this dinner was supposed to take place.Eight missed calls and several texts from an unknown number that I soon learned was my mate. That sounds so weird: my mate. My mate didn't reject me. He’d tried to contact me several times before breaking into my room. I should be furious that he broke into my room. I’m not.I swore out loud when I realized I’d also missed more than a dozen calls and a dozen texts from my dad. He was worried about me. I called him immediately.“Lara! Thank the Goddess! I was so worried about you. When Gileston called me ab
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**** Kelton ****As soon as I walked in the classroom, I caught her delectable scent. I tried to ignore it as best as I could. Not because I didn’t want her. I did. Desperately. But because I was in a room full of students, and I had a job to do. I couldn’t just march up to my mate and kiss her senseless. She’d probably slap me. Then I’d get fired. I was actually OK with both of those outcomes, except that I did not want to frighten her or force myself on her.Already I felt things for her I didn’t think were possible. This young woman was made for me. It was a struggle to concentrate. And I didn’t even know her yet. My whole being unraveled at the thought of her. My mind was racing.My wolf, Knight, was beyond ecstatic. I’d had to block him briefly… not something I like to do. But his furious need to be with her, to claim her, was testing my control on a cellular level. I felt as if I’d self-combust at any second. Finally, after damn near forty years, I’d found my goddess given fated
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2pm came and went. Perhaps my clock was broken…Perhaps I’d already screwed this up.Perhaps she has a class at this time.I looked her up in the system. Nope, no class at this time.For the first time in my entire life someone stood me up. I’m not talking about a woman. I hadn’t been on any dates since Darla. And even then, we weren’t really dating. We were fu.king, a friends with benefits kind of gig. Until I accidentally knocked her up. Then we were suddenly a couple with responsibilities.As an Alpha, half my life was spent in meetings. Usually, people wait anxiously for me. I quickly learned the outer signs of anxiety or nervousness. Sweaty palms, sweaty brows, fidgeting fingers, eyes constantly flicking around, difficulty looking me in the eye. Etc.For the first time in my life, however, I clearly recognized those signs in myself. It was me sitting there watching the clock tick up to, and past, 2pm. I’d also recognized my mate displaying each and every one of those sighs during
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**** Lara ****By the time 6:30 pm rolled around, I was absolutely trembling with nerves. I kept vacillating wildly between dirty thoughts and frightened thoughts. Though the paranoid fear had reduced significantly, it hadn’t yet completely abated.This is a terrible idea; I can’t believe I’m doing this….He’s probably taking us somewhere away from the college to murder us….I hope he kisses me first….So on and so on, my idiotic thoughts went until I finally saw his car.A fancy red convertible. I’m not sure what I expected, but somehow it wasn’t that. So much for inconspicuousness. Everyone on campus will see me getting into that thing. It’ll take ten seconds for his female fan club to figure out that that car is his. From there they’ll be able to track him to where he lives. He’ll stand out, we’ll stand out, in that thing everywhere we go. Not that my purple jeep is particularly inconspicuous either now that I thought about it. There are a ton of jeeps around campus but none in my
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After twenty more minutes of winding through the picturesque hills, we arrived at a beautiful brew pub restaurant situated on the bank of a small river. An old mill converted with a very modern looking restaurant attached. It felt welcoming, homey, and fancy all at the same time.On the way in, we walked past a group of older ladies who were exiting the establishment. Thanks to my superior werewolf hearing, I heard one say, “Oh, it’s sweet that they are having a daddy daughter date. Family is so important.”Her friend, I assumed, replied, “I think he’s her sugar daddy, not her father, Maria. Judging by the way he’s staring at her body.”After the resulting gasps, I tuned them out.That’s what everyone would think, wouldn’t they? Shockingly, that old lady hadn’t sounded nearly as judgmental as I’d expected. Perhaps everyone wouldn’t be so open-minded about our age gap.Who cares what everyone else thinks, Maya huffed.She was right. We were both legal adults and chose each other of our
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**** Kelton ****As soon as I walked in the classroom, I caught her delectable scent. I tried to ignore it as best as I could. Not because I didn’t want her. I did. Desperately. But because I was in a room full of students, and I had a job to do. I couldn’t just march up to my mate and kiss her senseless. She’d probably slap me. Then I’d get fired. I was actually OK with both of those outcomes, except that I did not want to frighten her or force myself on her.Already I felt things for her I didn’t think were possible. This young woman was made for me. It was a struggle to concentrate. And I didn’t even know her yet. My whole being unraveled at the thought of her. My mind was racing.My wolf, Knight, was beyond ecstatic. I’d had to block him briefly… not something I like to do. But his furious need to be with her, to claim her, was testing my control on a cellular level. I felt as if I’d self-combust at any second. Finally, after damn near forty years, I’d found my goddess given fated
