Page 5 of Rejected By My Shifter Billionaire
Her jaw dropped.
Do well on your tests so I can fuck you the way we both want me to.
Kassia stumbled to a stop, having to squeeze her thighs together in a futile way to keep herself from getting wet. But it was too late. She only had to think about the professor saying the F-word – the professor whispering “fuck” in that husky, wicked way of his, and she got even wetter, embarrassingly and excitingly so.
A wolf indeed,Kassia thought with a shudder that wasn’t exactly born out of unpleasantness.
Months ago, she had fallen head over heels at first sight with the gentle side of Alessandro Moretti, a side everyone in school had also been treated to. But this wild, almost sadistic and dominant side of him? Kassia was drawn to it like a moth to a flame, and she didn’t even mind if the passion between them would be so explosively hot it would end up burning her in ashes.
Chapter Three
Kassia had seen him. Alessandro knew the very moment her eyes touched him, and he more than heard the gasp that rose out of her throat when she saw the woman next to him. He could feel her jealousy, but more than that, he could feel her pain.
He had thought it would be fun to know how she would react at seeing him with another woman, but he was wrong. What pained her surprisingly hurt him as well, a fact that unnerved him and one he knew he would brood about later endlessly.
But for now...
Wanting to undo the hurt he had needlessly caused Kassia, Alessandro quickly extricated his arm from Melissa’s hold, which she had so slyly captured when she suddenly appeared at his side and fell into step with him.
His fellow teacher was a lovely woman, with clouds of dark brown hair and expressive dark eyes. She was smart and confident, with the kind of allure that one would normally not expect from a woman who taught Chemistry for a living.
She knew what she wanted and went for it. Right now, he was what she wanted, and Alessandro knew he could have her in his bed anytime he desired. However, it was a tiny curvy redhead he wanted under him. Just the thought of having Kassia under him, legs splayed open for him to fuck to his heart’s content, had Alessandro hard, and he knew he had to leave right away before Melissa started assuming his erection was for her.
He coughed to draw Melissa’s attention and when she turned to him, he murmured, “I’m afraid I have to dash, Professor. I have a meeting with a student regarding supplementary lessons.” A lie, but a necessary one to spare the other woman from the knowledge that Alessandro wanted nothing to do with her.
“Of course. Hope I can run into you again next time,” she said gaily.
As he walked away, Alessandro couldn’t help but turn to look up at the second floor corridors, where he had first felt Kassia’s gaze on him.
She was no longer looking at him. Leaning against the wall, Kassia was talking to her friend, but the stiff and almost-defensive posture of her back told Alessandro that she had seen more than enough.
Alessandro had an insane urge to run up to Kassia and comfort her with his touch, to assure her—-
His mouth tightened, and he quickened his stride, as if by doing so he could leave the strange feelings that the mere thought of Kassia evoked. She had always amused and exasperated him, the way she never seemed to care about her work in school except when it was something that stimulated her highly creative mind. He had been attracted to her, but it was something he could have easily dismissed if not for her visit to his office, her bold declaration of her feelings, and the unmistakable scent of her arousal.
This was bad, Alessandro thought. If he let this continue, he could end up like his older brother Domenico, a broken man since his wife had left him. It had been almost two years since his wife had disappeared, but the change in his future alpha stillappalled Alessandro. Worse, it sickened and shamed Alessandro even though he would never admit it to anyone, not even to his twin, whom he was closest to.
Domenico had once been the strongest and proudest man Alessandro knew, someone he looked up to. Yet love had destroyed Domenico, and Alessandro would be damned if he let it destroy him, too. He wouldn’t let it happen, not even if it meant he would have to hurt Kassia instead.
“YOU CAN RELAX NOW,”Ellie, Kassia’s best friend from childhood, said under her breath. “They’re gone.”
Kassia managed a smile. “Thanks.” It had hurt, seeing the professor acting so friendly with another woman. It felt like her heart was breaking the whole time she had seen them together, forcing her to turn away. If she stared at them any longer, she was afraid she would end up crying on the spot.
Her friend added reassuringly, “They went their separate ways, too.”
Kassia’s smile became more genuine. “Honest?”
Ellie nodded. A small curvy brunette, shyness was the one major thing she and Kassia had in common. Other than that, their interests lay in opposite directions, with Kassia hating to study, for instance, while Ellie was in love with it.
Kassia said slowly, “I haven’t heard any rumors about X dating her. Have you?” X was their code name for the professor, something Ellie came up with because the language professor was pretty much like an unknown factor in algebra.
Ellie shook her head. “But even if they’re not dating, you do know she’s not your toughest competition, right? He’s aMoretti,Kas. He’s from one of the richest families in the world. His kind dates actresses and supermodels.”
Kassia stubbornly shook her head back. “Believe me, they’renotmy competition. He’s too levelheaded to be serious about airheads. I’m telling you, if there’s anyone who could be my rival, it’sher.”
“Y,” Ellie said decisively, her math major side kicking in.
“Right. Y. I’m scared of Y. She gets to spend a lot of time with him, and obviously she’s no idiot. If they spend too much time together, it’s possible that he’d eventually develop feelings for her—-”
