Chapter 10

She walked down the corridor of the college building towards the staff room. She wasn't exactly sure how she was supposed to give him the key, he hadn't specified where and when to hand it over to him and he wasn't replying to her texts. So she decided it would just be best to call him out of the staff room and hand it over to him.

She spotted him walking out of the staff room just as she approached the door, so she ran to him

"Hey"

He turned around and on seeing her immediately looked both ways to check if anyone heard her

"Kate!" he whispered "What did I tell you about treating me like your professor in college"

"I'm sorry, what's wrong with saying hi to my professor" she said with a look of irritation.

"Okay, I don't have time to argue right now, do you know how late you are, and I'm late for class because of you, now where are my keys"

"You know you wouldn't be so late if you had to just answer my calls his morning and tell me when and where you wanted me to hand the keys over to you" she said to him, while giving him the key.

"What calls, Kate, don't talk about calls here in the corridor, we could get caught"

"Caught doing what, will you just relax, you're getting paranoid for no reason!" she whisper-yelled.

"Don't talk to me that way Kate!"

"What?" she exclaimed, wondering why he was behaving this way

"I got to get to class. I'll see you later"

With that he walked back into the staff room so that he could take his things from the locker and go to his next class. Kate walked away angrily. He didn't mean to get so paranoid, and especially not for the first time he saw her after everything they shared between them last night. He'd talk to her later and apologize, it wasn't her fault that his keys fell out of his pocket, she was doing him a favour and risking her own place by coming to drop off his keys here.

Just as he was leaving the staff room to go to his class, another professor was leaving too.

"Was that your locker keys just came to give you?" he asked

Alex's eyes widened. What was he supposed to do now? He calmed his features and thought quickly

"Uhhh... no. those are my car keys, I must have dropped them while entering the building, she found them and came to return them"

The professor nodded and walked away. But Alex knew his excuse wasn't convincing at all. He wiped his palm down his face, sighed and hurried off to his class.

An hour later Kate entered the room where her literature class took place every day, and slammed her books down on the desk before taking her seat. The rest of the students began to shuffle in, but she couldn't care less. She was dealing with her own rage right now.

Just who did he think he was to be talking to her that way? Any student passing them by would have noticed something fishy with the way he was trying to, but failing miserably to not yell at her. Had he just acted normal, no one would have suspected anything. But Maddie had passed by and seen the exchange between them and on her way to class had asked Kate, "What's going on with professor Rogers?"

"He's losing it. Going bonkers." she had replied.

"Any professor who challenges your intellect is." they had laughed about it, but Kate wanted to show him just who wears the pants in their relationship. He may be the professor here, but he was no boss of her, and she had just the right plan in mind to get back at him.

He entered in and kept his file on the table, he then looked around the class, his gaze finally landing on Kate and his expression softened. But all she did was look away. He felt bad. He really was an idiot for getting so paranoid earlier today.

He took his coat off and asked the class to open their books to page 147 and he continued to teach, hoping he would be able to talk to her after class. As he spoke, telling the class to mark a certain line, his gaze wandered across the class, and he couldn't help but notice in his periphery vision, Kate was playing with her hair.

Great. He tried to focus on the next line he had to read out, and tried to get his mind over the fact that she was doing exactly what he had asked her not to, and it frustrated him even more, because he knew why she was doing it. She was trying to make this harder for him. To punish him for yelling at her unnecessarily today.

He turned to write something on the board, and when he turned back around, he managed to focus on what he was teaching. But it only lasted the five minutes, the next thing he knew, there was a sound of a pencil falling to the ground. His attention flew to where the sound came from. Kate's desk.

She rose from her seat to get it and bent down, but Erik who was seated on the bench next to her also reached down to get it for her, and that's when he saw it, her purposeful bend so that he could see just the right amount of cleavage to tease him. It enraged him. Not so much because she was torturing him, but because she was oblivious to the fact that Erik seemed to get a kick out of it too. Erik let his gaze linger on her but she just said a soft thank you to him and sat back in her place.

Rick lost his train of words and seemed a little disturbed. He put his book down and said "okay class, Today's your lucky day. Put your books away, I've got a surprise quiz for you guys"

The class roared with sounds of whines and excuses. But Kate just sat there unaffected.

After the test was done, he collected all of the answer sheets and dismissed the class, he began to sort the papers while the students shuffled out, all the while keeping an eye out watching Kate pack up her things. She was taking her time, he assumed she realized he wanted to talk. But then he saw her walking out with the last few students and it only irritated him more.

He quickly put the answer sheets into his file and walked briskly out of the class. He looked both ways after leaving the classroom and found her walking down the corridor alone. He hurried behind her. This was his chance to talk to her, he just needed to find an empty classroom where they could have a moment alone.

"Kate, follow me" he said quietly when he caught up with her

"I'm not following you anywhere; just who do you think you are?"

And she walked into the adjacent corridor. He took a moment to realize she wasn't going to listen to him, he deserved it. So he followed behind her at a safe distance, trying not to pull attention towards them, until he finally caught up with her, and when no one was looking, he grabbed her arm, and pulled her into the janitor's room and quickly closed the door behind him.

"Just what in the world do you think you're…!" she exclaimed

But she had no time to finish that sentence, hungry lips found hers, the books she was holding fell to the ground along with his file. His hands roamed her waist, and pushed her until her back was against the door, he pushed his tongue between her lips, invading her mouth and making her groan. He parted her legs with his knee and she began grinding herself unintentionally against his thigh. He finally put his hands behind her thighs and lifted them up to hook around his hips as he pressed his hips between her legs

She threw her head back as a moan left her lips at the feel of him just where she needed him

"God! Alex!" she said

"shhh" he blew at her neck and then began kissing down her throat, going wild on that spot just between where her neck ended and shoulder began, causing her to arch her back and push her hips closer to his crotch.

"Don't you ever pull a stunt like that in class again!" he said between kisses

She could hardly create coherent words with the way his body was pressed up against her, but she still managed to say

"What stunts?"

"You did everything I told you not to? Were you trying to punish me?"

"I was"

"Well, it worked. Are you happy?"

"So very happy" she moaned as she ground her hips against him.

He chuckled. "You have to be careful Kate. In the process of trying to torture me, you gave Erik a little something to look at too"

"I did? Does that worry you?"

"It pisses me off when another man leers at you"

"That's good to know"

He slowly moved the neckline of her t-shirt a little off her shoulder and bit down hungrily on her skin.

Kate has never been a fan of men's over possessiveness, or animalistic instincts, but that simple act of marking her just because he got jealous, made her insides sing. It sent a shiver down her spine, she couldn't process how amazing it felt to have his teeth softly mark her skin. He very reverently then kissed over that marked skin and said "you're mine"

"I know"

"I'm sorry I snapped at you this morning"

"I understand. I was angry, but I'm alright now."

"Thank you. We have to be super careful Kate. If anyone ever came to know, both of us could be kicked out, I can't imagine how much trouble we'd both be in"

She kissed him, hoping to calm him down, to maybe give him some kind of comfort.

"Why are the best relationships always so hard to keep?" she asked when she pulled away.

"I wish I knew, I just know they're worth it in the end. After all the dust has settled,you and I will share something really beautiful."

She smiled.

"You have me up against the door of the janitor's room, your hips between my legs, your lips so close to mine, and yet you have enough brain power to come up with such a romantic line"

"They didn't make me a lit professor for nothing Kate. I'm a man of many talents"

"Yea, I have still to witness the best of them" she said with a teasing smirk as she let her feet fall back to the ground.

He kissed her again then, sweetly, gently holding her like she was the most delicate piece of glass.

"I have to get to my next class now" he said when he pulled away.

"Me too" she kissed him once more then opened the door and walked out. He stayed in, needing a moment to calm himself down.

When he entered his next class, he was alerted of a text on his phone. But he only opened it up later when he was done with his lesson and had allowed the class time for self-study. It was a text from her.

"Take a look at my answer sheet" it said.

He quickly opened up his file and began rummaging through the sheets until he found hers, he saw that all of her answers were right. She had basically aced the test. But it was the end of the sheet that made him smile.

"I aced the test, I expect a reward" and beside it, was a print of her perfect lips in that sweet tasting cherry lip-gloss that he loved to kiss off her lips. He quickly folded the paper and tucked it into the inside pocket of his coat before any of the students saw it.

Alex Rogers couldn't get that smile off his face that day.

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