Chapter 142
Stephanie's Point of View
I didn't fully process the words he cast over my ears in that rasped voice at first. Though the demand itself was entirely outside anything custom or natural in a relationship between a student and her professor—much like all those alternative strict boundaries and decrees he was accustomed to dictating to me within the walls of this office—my body was already moving in absolute compliance and surrender.
I was driven by a mysterious, overwhelming force that rendered me completely prepared to execute anything that emerged from between his lips without a single second thought.
I rose from his thigh with slow, heavy, and quiet steps, my heartbeats threatening to rip my chest entirely out of its place.
