All Chapters of MY PROFESSOR'S LITTLE SECRET: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

Jared cleared his throat and he excused himself, leaving me to deal with it. Well, she was my friend but I didn’t hesitate to make him know how much in trouble he was in. “I...” She held up her hand to silence me. I felt hurt but I probably deserved it. We talked almost every time and I hid it from her. I couldn’t trust her.She was hurt too so I thought to give her some space. I turned the knob of her door, prepared to leave when her words stopped me in my tracks.“Where are you going?” She frowned at me.“I thought you didn’t want to talk to me.” She rolled her eyes at me and stood akimbo, her hand resting on her hips.She gestured to the walls of her office.“Walls have ears.” Realisation dawned on me. She was just trying to protect me. I should’ve told her sooner, instead of hiding it.I didn’t have to wait for long before she took her lunch break, driving us outside campus foe a discussion.We grabbed food at Joe’s and walked back to her car. Once we’d settled, she turned to m

“We need to talk.” I hit send on the message and clutched the phone tight in my hands, waiting for his reply.I attended the remaining classes for the day but my attention was elsewhere.Even when I had been asked a question, I just blabbered on without thinking. Tests also had been announced to commence in a week’s time.I looked at my phone and refreshed for new messages. None came up.This man was keeping me on my toes for no reason and I didn’t like it. When my phone chimed, I quickly opened it but it wasn’t a message from him. It was a spam email.I groaned and slammed my phone on my bed. I grabbed a hoodie and baggy joggers and headed to his house since he was literally forcing me there.I hadn’t been in close proximity with him since the time at Alyssa’s office and I really hoped it was safe to go to his place at this moment.I knew where he kept the spare key and checked twice to make sure no one was watching. To be honest, his street was very secluded and I almost never saw a

I sat on the bed for the longest time, wondering if I should go after him or give him some space.Like usual, I’d managed to ruin everything. The Hastings were the royalty of America. Everyone knew them and what happened to them but to think their son was Jared was wild.I’d opened a can of worms and now I didn’t know how to salvage the situation. I tried to put myself in his shoes and realised; I wouldn’t want to be left alone in that kind of situation.“Jer!” “Jer!” I opened almost every door but couldn’t find him. I didn’t think he’d left the house. His car was still there.I checked every room upstairs. I’d almost given up on the last door when I heard certain sounds.My jaw almost dropped open. There had been a gym in this house all this while?My eyes found Jared immediately. He was on his back doing bench presses. Each push made me wince in pain.I wasn’t sure he was doing it because it was his outlet for being hurt or he just randomly worked out in the middle of the night.

“Leah, what the fuck was that?” I rolled my eyes as I read the message. I had finally opened his message since the day before.He was referring to me storming out of his class.“Are you still talking to him?” Alyssa peered over my shoulder. “No.” I frowned, even though I itched to fire back at him. “You’d better not.” She placed her hand on my forehead and nodded.“You’re fine now.” Indeed I was. I felt great after sleeping through the night.“You know you can come stay with me, if you want.” I looked at her to see if she was serious.“Yeah. I mean it. My place is way too big for one person.” “I... I can’t do that.”“I’m not asking you to move in.” She glared at me. She was. That was Alyssa for you. She was as selfless as they came.“Right...” I narrowed my eyes at her, a small smirk playing in my lips.“I’m just saying that my place is open anytime you want. It can be a safe space for you.” My eyes glossed over with unshed tears. I didn’t deserve her at all and her place really w

We’d broken up. It wasn’t the end of the world. I couldn’t be petty forever because Jared wasn’t worth that energy.Each meeting we had, I made sure to be as civil as possible. I said sorry if it required it and I didn’t cause trouble.The fact that I’d been able to avoid Jared for as long as I could was shocking.We didn’t see outside meetings or classes and our paths continued to stay separate.What was more shocking was the fact that we could work together without it resulting to a fight. I tried my best as possible to not get irritated or pissed off when a lady was being overly friendly with him. ‘He’s not mine anymore.’ I would remind myself daily till when I’d finally come to accept it.“Hit send.” The room jeered. We’d worked endlessly for the entire week and we’d been able to come up with the abstract for the two topics and the entire research paper. Usually, these things took months but I’d worked extra hard on my own and Jared had too.I had to admit that Jared was incre