Page 32 of Forbidden Obsession

“Neither did I,” Emma added. Alice nodded in agreement, and we all stared back at Sofia.

“Am I living in the twilight zone? Are you doppelgangers?”

“She’s so dramatic,” I whispered to Emma.

“Most of the time,” Emma agreed.

“Hey!”

We smirked and glanced at each other, then burst into laughter. Curious eyes turned our way as other classmates wondered what was so funny.

“You guys, that is not funny!”

“Oh, come on, Sofia, you know we have to have a little fun.”

“At my expense?”

“Technically, we didn’t tell you to ignore him,” Emma added.

“We told you to not give up the goods to him. The two are not interchangeable.”

“Well, call me silly, but I can’t be nice and indulge in conversation without falling in love with him, okay?”

Alice’s face drew up in a frown. “So that means you’ve got to ignore and be mean?”

“Yes,” Sofia said, as if it were common sense.

Emma shook her head. “You poor doll. I hate that for you.”

Alice nodded as Sofia dropped her face in the palms of her hands.

“Ugh! I’ve got to find someone else to like. I don’t know how long I’ll be able to ignore Ethan before I give in.”

“Trust me,” I said, “it’s better this way.”

She dropped her hands, her eyebrows going in different directions when she responded. “How? Please enlighten me.”

“Because if you give in and give up the goods, when he dumps and ignores you, it’ll be worse.”

She drew back as if scalded by hot water. “Ugh!”

I felt sorry for Sofia. I wanted her to have what she wanted, but I also knew there was no way she could handle being misused by Ethan. If she didn’t like him, and they were just a fling, maybe—but she wanted him hot and heavy. He would crush her entirely.

“Excuse me.”

All eyes turned to the dark-timbred announcement at the front of the class, and my entire body lit up at the sight of Dominic.

His gaze carried over the sea of faces, gray eyes locking on mine for what felt like an eternity. My pussy went mad, thumping like a thirsty whore on Main Street. My nipples hardened, heat slapped my body, and chills raced down my flesh. God, he had an unnatural hold on me, and there didn’t seem to be anything I could do about it. Not that I wanted to.

“Professor Broward will be late today. So, for this course I’ll be filling in for him. It is my impression that you’re covering Astronomy 101. Log into your course or take out your textbooks, whichever you prefer.”

His eyes dropped from mine as he tapped the computer in front of him. Meanwhile, my eyes covered the length of his muscular build. The button-down shirt was topped with a charcoal twill-tailored Italian vest, and his tie was tucked neatly inside. I squirmed as I assessed him, wishing and wondering simultaneously if I’d ever experience his deep strokes. But that mouth had driven me insane first, then straight to dreamland secondly. Would I even make it through a nightcap with him? I teased my bottom lip with my teeth, imagining his mouth on mine when Emma leaned in and whispered:

“Now that’s a professor I would fuck.”

Alice chuckled while Sofia nodded.

“Hard, raw, and disgustingly,” Emma added.

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