Page 27 of Monster's Baby

“I suppose not.”He winked at me as he headed for the attached nursery.“Just something for you to think about all day until the professor’s asleep tonight.”

I gripped the edge of the dresser tightly, my knees weak.

How was I going to be able to hold off on climbing him like a tree until tonight?

“There’s the tiny professor!”Aiden said, carrying the baby out into our room.He’d transfigured the clothes into a little waistcoat and pants, complete with a bow tie.“Doesn’t he look cute?”

I stifled my giggles.“He’s still our professor.Hopefully, he won’t remember this when he grows up.”

“I think he’d appreciate my sense of taste,” Aiden said haughtily.“Besides, he’s my thesis supervisor.I know what he’d like.”

“He’d like to not be cooed over by the entirety of the female population of the school,” I muttered under my breath.

“What was that?”Aiden asked, looking up from buckling the baby into the stroller.

“I said it’s hard to resist cooing over him,” I replied.“I need to get changed.Can you take him out, please?”

“I’ll take him down for breakfast.”Aiden pecked me lightly on the lips, and then cheerfully started narrating his actions to the professor as he opened the door and started down the hallway.

I frowned slightly at the closing door, Aiden’s voice filtering back to me.He was treating the professor like a real baby.While it boded well for our future kids how quickly he bonded with him, I wasn’t sure the professor would appreciate it.

I sighed and got dressed before heading downstairs.

Professor Dunlop caught up with me on the second floor.“I didn’t find Emma last night.”

“She didn’t return to her room?”I asked, surprised.

He shook his head.

“Were the other professors able to get anything from the potion in his goblet?”

The professor snorted.“The one that spilled all over the floor when his transformation happened?”

“Shit,” I cursed.

“Language.”He sighed.“But I concur.”

“I have Qualitative Spellcraft first, and Emma should be in that class.What professor is taking over for him?”

“That would be me.”Professor Dunlop looked worried.“I think you’ll be a little busy, though.We’re going to research spell cures.”

“Fun!”I said enthusiastically.

“I’m glad you think so.Get some food in your belly.You’re going to need the energy.”

I continued down to the cafeteria, getting my breakfast and joining my friends at our table.There was a parade of girls that kept walking past, distracting the infant from his food.

“Should we be giving him solids?”I wondered halfway through my bacon.

“I think it’s okay.He has teeth,” Rhiannon said.

“I’m cutting the hashbrowns,” Aiden added.

The professor grabbed for the food in front of him and managed to get half of it into his mouth.The rest went into his hair.

“Thank goodness for cleaning spells,” I said.“That would be a pain and a half to get out the human way.How do parents manage without spells?”

“Good question, and I’m glad we won’t ever have to find out,” Bruce said.

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