Old Habits by Ava Guerre

Author:Ava Guerre [Guerre, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

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Cat replayed the wedding reception over and over in her brain. By Tuesday morning, as she walked down the hall to her math class, she could still feel the pressure of John’s hand on her hip, the warm expanse of his chest beneath her palm. She could see those glacial blue eyes looking down at her with something she’d never seen in a man’s eyes before. She didn’t know what it was, but she wanted more of it. She wanted it all the time. She wanted him.

She slipped into the classroom as unobtrusively as she could. John was at his desk, focused on his laptop.

When she stepped in, he looked up immediately, as if he’d been waiting for her. His gaze caught hers, and for a split second, she was back on the dance floor, looking up into his eyes.

She shook the thought away, plastered a polite smile on her face, and gave him a friendly nod. A nod that said, Greetings, professor. As opposed to what she wanted to say, which was, I want you.

He returned her nod with a brisk one of his own, then looked back down at his computer.

She couldn’t have him. He had a girlfriend. A woman he lived with. A woman he’d been with for years. A woman he’d moved cross-country with. And even if his girlfriend didn’t exist, Cat still couldn’t have him. He was her professor. She hadn’t exactly read the rule book, but she had a strong suspicion that he could get into serious trouble for dating a student. Career-ruining trouble.

And she was getting her life back on track. She’d given up bars and paid off her debts and left the coddling safety of her mother’s house for her own apartment in the city. Having an affair with her professor could seriously derail all of that. Once she gave into one of her old habits—unsuitable men—what was stopping her from falling hard into the rest of them?

Cat stayed at the far side of the auditorium, going as far up into the seats as she could get without standing out too far from the main clot of students. When John stood up from his desk, his eyes found her in the crowd, lighting on her for a brief second before he started class.

Since he’d gotten her through radians, the rest of the work had been manageable. Most of it she recalled from high school, even if she had to dust off the brain cells that’d been storing the information. Her notes made sense to her as she followed along with the work on the board.

At the end of class, Cat gathered her things quickly, trying to file into the crowd and slip out the door unnoticed. But John, damn his height, spotted her immediately.

“Catherine, could I speak to you?”

Her face flushed.

“Ooooh,” said a skinny little dude with white-boy dreds and a hammer and sickle t-shirt. “Someone’s in trouble!”

“I’m not in trouble,” Cat objected as he slipped by her.

When the room was empty, John leaned against his desk, arms crossed over his chest.

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