“that’s very sweet of you and all Shade, but I must regretfully decline, I’m working double shifts tonight…..gotta pay my way through college somehow.”
Elizabeta gathered her stack of books and shoved them into her messenger bag, her gaze falling upon the professor. To her surprise he was looking straight at her, a lazy smile upon his face and for a moment she saw something impossible in his eyes.
“Well I’ll ask some other time, catch you around darlin’.”
She turned around in time to see Shade stalk out of the room, his shoulders hunched as he mumbled to himself. She almost felt complete pity for the boy.
“Ms. Smith may I have a word with you?”
Something in the tone of his voice made her turn towards him. Professor Warren
