My Professor Is My Alpha Mate

Enzo's POV

"Hey, handsome. I had a great time last night. We should do it again soon.”

Fuck.

What the hell was she doing here?

I could feel Max growing angry at her presence; this was the last thing we needed right now. Lila was already upset enough about seeing me with Bethany last night, now she was about to find out what happened with Connie and me.

Not that I knew what happened with Connie with me.

Regardless of how hard I tried, everything was still such a blur.

Connie approached, batting her lashes and swaying her hips; she had to have known that whatever happened was a mistake and won't happen again.

I clearly wasn't in the right frame of mind

She ran her long fingers down my arm and grabbed her wrist, holding it firmly in my grasp, trying to keep my wolf under control.

“Connie, you should leave,” I said in a low tone between my teeth.

She looked started by my words.

"Enzo... have you gone mad?” She asked. “What did I do to make you so angry?”

“We need to talk about what happened,” I said in a lower tone so Lila couldn't hear.

Though, she was standing close enough where she probably could. However, she appeared to be in a daze, so maybe she couldn't.

“Did I do something wrong?” She asked; she sounded sad and her lips turned into a pout.

I shifted back into Max and turned my back to her.

“Get on... it'll be faster if I take you!”

She was hesitant for a moment, staring at me with dismay written all over her face.

"Get on, Lila!" I ordered with forcefulness in my tone.

She slid onto my back, wrapping her arms around my neck, and nuzzling her tear-filled eyes against my fur. All Max wanted to do was comfort her, but we had to go.

This mate bond was intense.

We got to the art studio and there were police officers already outside.

Cassidy-Ann was in tears when we arrived.

Lila didn't waste any time getting off me; she ran to Cassidy-Ann just as I shifted back into my human form.

"Oh, Lila! You are here,” she cried, tears falling from her eyes.

I have never seen Cassidy-Ann display such weakness and sadness before. She didn't even care about the makeup that was smeared across her features.

"Alpha Enzo,” Officer Ken greeted with a head nod.

"Officer Ken,” I greeted in return. “What's going on?"

“We just got here. We haven't gone inside yet, but there appears to be some vandalism.” “Vandalism?” I asked, narrowing my eyes at him before glancing over at Lila who was staring at Officer Ken with wide eyes.

“The studio was vandalized?” She asked in complete horror.

This caused Cassidy-Ann to burst into tears again.

“It's awful...” she sobbed.

Cassidy-Ann worked incredibly hard on this art studio and knowing that somebody would go out of their way to destroy it was unsettling. The color in Lila's face had completely drained.

She went with Cassidy-Ann inside and I followed closely behind them along with the officers.

My heart sank into my stomach when I saw that most of the paintings were completely destroyed. There was graffiti all over the place and paintings crumbled to the ground.

"Oh, goddess..." Lila breathed, staring around at all the destroyed art.

Cassidy-Ann sobbed into her hands.

“That's not even all of it,” she said between gasps.

Lila and I looked at her confused as she led us toward the back of the exhibit... Lila's section. Whatever it was we were about to see, I knew Lila wouldn't be able to handle it. But we couldn't protect her from this.

We stopped in front of a portrait that was still very much hung on the wall; it was the portrait that she had done of me. The portrait had gotten a lot of attention in the exhibit. It was her first real work of art.

However, sprawled out on the front of it, in black spray paint was the word: Skank.