Page 275 of In Love with a Cruel Billionaire

Together

THE PROFESSOR WAS DONEfighting.

This girl might be his soul's downfall, but he no longer fucking cared. He watched her watch him, something he had thought she would be too shy to do, and if he had to admit the truth, it was simply one of the many things he never expected from her.

He had expected her to cry out and run away at the first sight of his dick, but instead she had done the exact fucking opposite and even went on to lock the door like an eager accomplice. He had expected her to disappoint him by saying something trivial (oh, Professor, what are you doing?), but instead...ah God, instead...

That's for me. Isn't it?

"And if it is?" His voice was carefully controlled, his gaze narrowed but unreadable. "What then?"

Diana swallowed hard. The ball was back on her court again, and she should've expected it from him.

As for his question...

The answer was on the tip of her tongue, but a sudden attack of insecurities made Diana hold the words back. What if she were to say them, and he ended up laughing?

Her throat tightened in fear at the mere prospect of it, and she found herself wetting her lips—-

Oh!

Her eyes went wide at seeingitreact, twitching rather violently as the professor's leonine gaze fell on her lips.

She had causedthat.

Hadn't she?

The realization made her feel giddy, but more than that, the all-too-visible proof of the professor's desire was gloriously empowering, enough to embolden Diana to toss her worries to the wind. She had gone this far, after all, so she might as well speak the truth.

"If it's because of me, then I'm...glad." Diana lifted her chin. "Because I want you, too."

The words that had tumbled out in a soft but determined rush almost had the professor's lips curving, with the way it reminded him of an angel rolling in the mud in a misguided attempt to soil her pristine-white wings.

Ingenious, the professor thought,but ineffective.

Losing one's purity wasn't that easy of course, but it could be done, and it was just too bad for the girl that she had before her one of the few men who knew exactly how to fall from grace.

And stay fallen.

He beckoned for her to come close with a crook of his finger, purring, "Show me then."

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