“Screw Harvard,” I muttered.
“You don’t mean that.”
“No, I don’t.” I laughed softly and sniffed, looking up at him. “What if it is and I get in and I have to leave here?”
He held his arms out, his eyebrows raised. A tiny smile teased his mouth. “You see a job keeping me here?”
“You’re so silly.”
He laughed and hugged me tight. “Look, Darcy. Just because everything has changed doesn’t mean it’s the end. If anything, this is the beginning for us.”
“You think?”
He spun me around then hoisted me onto the kitchen counter. He stepped between my legs, and my arms circled his neck.
“I know it is,” he said. “I’m not tied to Chicago. If you go to Harvard, I’ll go with you. If you go to New York, Washington, California… Wherever you go, Darcy, I’ll go with you. No matter where it is.”
I pressed my lips against his. I didn’t have anything to say back to that. I didn’t know what to say back to that.
“But,” he said, taking a deep breath. “I need to tell you something.”
That sounded daunting.
“Okay.”
“I’ve been invited by a friend and old colleague to go on a research trip. To the UK.” He paused, his eyes searching my face. “In three weeks.”
“Oh. Wow.” Yeah, wow. “For…how long?”
“A little over six months.”
My eyes widened. Double wow. Triple wow.
“Wow.” I was running out of words.
“I spoke with him yesterday. I haven’t given him an answer yet.”
I frowned. “Are you…asking me if you can go?”
“Yes and no.”
“This is what you love, right?” I brushed my thumb across the stubble of his jaw. “Go, Jordan. I’m not exactly going anywhere here. At least, I hope I’m not.”
“I’ll be here when you find out from Dr. Lewellyn what will happen. I’ll be here through all of that until I have to go.”
“I know.”
He touched the side of my face and looked into my eyes. I thought he was going to speak, but instead of that, he kissed me. The familiar rush of need washed through me, and my legs wrapped around his waist, drawing him closer to me.
I lost myself in his kiss. Everything else melted away as he pulled me off the counter and, with his hands on my butt, carried me to the stairs and up them. I grinned as we bumped into a wall and giggled when he told me to shut up.
He dropped me on the bed and leaned over me. My body was alight with need, and as he removed our clothes and explored his way across my body, it was almost as if he were worshipping me.
And when he finally slid inside me and rocked his hips against mine, I had the feeling that maybe, just maybe, everything would be okay.
Dear Professor, it feels strange to call you that. Maybe I should say “Dear Lover.” *grins* Xoxo, Darcy.
I closed the door to Dr. Lewellyn’s office with tears stinging my eyes. My suspension had ended. I would finish my undergrad studies in Chicago, but it wouldn’t be the fairytale ending my heart had still hoped it would be.
The relationship was going on my record. No matter how high my grades were or how hard Jordan had tried to convince them that I should walk away without a blemish on my record, the board had decided that it was necessary. In doing that, I knew that my ultimate dream was over. Harvard was no longer attainable.
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I wasn’t angry. Rules were there for a reason, and I’d broken one of them. I had known the consequences of my actions, and while my heart had been set on the attempt, I was almost glad I no longer had to worry about it. That the choice had been taken away from me.
Now, I could focus on the other schools, even if Jordan’s letter was now entirely useless.
I wiped under my eyes and reassured myself that it hadn’t all been for nothing. Life had a funny way of showing us who we really were, and I was going to take this as life’s way of showing me that I wasn’t cut out for Harvard.
There was another school out there that would be my perfect fit.
I was upset, but I wouldn’t let it get me down. I could finish my degree. I could still go to a law school. At the end of the day, who I would be in ten years wouldn’t matter. Whichever school I went to wouldn’t dictate my success as a lawyer. That much I did know.
I held on to that thought with everything I had, mostly because that was all I had.
But I had something… And something was far better than nothing.
Two weeks later.
My heart pounded wildly in my chest as my orgasm washed over me. Jordan groaned my name into my ear, gripping my hair tightly as my muscles clenched and pulsed around his cock.