Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Sun Tower Series Book 3) by Noor Sasha

Author:Noor Sasha [Sasha, Noor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2025-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

26

Raees

Professor Holmes tilts her head. “What am I looking at?”

“It’s Optimus Prime. From Transformers.” I set the toy down on my desk. “My wife and I were shopping for my niece’s birthday a couple of days ago, and, well, she surprised me with this.”

“She bought you . . . a toy?”

“I know.” I grin. “Isn’t she the sweetest woman on the planet? I’d been rambling about it when I saw it, and then boom—she’s handing it to me, all wrapped up. Best surprise ever.”

Holmes sighs, the kind that tells me she’s already regretting the last sixty seconds. “Raees?”

“Yes?”

“Remind me of your age again?”

I scoff, turning to set Optimus on my bookshelf. The controller stays in my desk drawer—she doesn’t need to know that much. “You wouldn’t get it. When she gave it to me, it was like . . . I don’t know. Like I was dreaming. Every single day with her feels that way, you know? Like she’s too good to be true. Like someone like me—”

“Stop right there.” Holmes’s hand shoots up like a referee calling a foul. “I’m not here for the I-love-my-wife-so-much TED Talk. I came to tell you I got a response about your student’s internship.”

Oh. Right. Dua’s internship. My mind flips tracks. “And? Good news, I hope?”

Holmes crosses her arms, leaning against the doorframe. “Katie wants a portfolio. Dua doesn’t have one.”

I frown. “She’s got stuff. A blog. Those volleyball team interviews—”

“Stuff isn’t a portfolio.” Holmes cuts me off like I just said something especially stupid. “Katie’s picky. Capital-P Picky. If Dua wants a shot, she needs to branch out. Cover athletes outside of campus. Start a podcast. Hell, write an op-ed about something trending. Just something that doesn’t look like it was slapped together between classes.”

That’s disappointing but not surprising. Dua’s smart, clever, insightful, the kind of student who pays attention to the details that others miss. But she’s also a second-year, still working her way through electives and prerequisites, with barely any real-world experience under her belt. Her professional network begins and ends with her boyfriend.

“I’ll advise her going forward,” I say.

Holmes raises an eyebrow, standing and brushing imaginary lint from her skirt. “Excellent. My good deed for the week is officially checked off. I’ll send you Katie’s contact info—forward that to Dua. Always useful to have a big name like Miss Cunningham’s somewhere in your orbit. Even if she’s a pain.”

“Got it.”

She grabs her purse from the floor and slings it over her shoulder, but pauses halfway out the door, eyeing me like she’s debating whether to bother. She bothers. “Oh, by the way, Wei’s retirement party is at the end of the month. You’ve been ghosting the group chat, in case you weren’t aware.”

“I’ve been busy.”

Holmes snorts. “Of course you have. No one would ever accuse you of being over-engaged.” Her gaze flicks to Optimus Prime on my shelf, but she doesn’t comment. The judgment is dripping from her smirk as she turns on her heel and strides out.

Truth be

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