MILA

Getting pregnant from a sorority-party one-night-stand wasn’t part of my college plans. The sobbing when I saw those two lines on the test stick became tears of joy when the doctor placed my baby in my arms. Being a twenty-one-year-old single mother with an infant is hard. Doing it while trying to finish college is a whole other level of challenging. But I’m managing. Or I was, until my babysitter pulls a no-show on the day of my math exam.

Asking for a retake date is pointless. Everyone knows Professor Jerzey Harding is an inflexible stickler for the rules. Meaning I have two choices: Skip the exam and take a zero, or take my colicky baby to the exam and hope I can complete enough of it to earn a pass before Ashton’s crying requires me to get up and leave. Which it does while I’m answering the first question.

When Professor Harding strides toward me while I’m packing up, I know I’ll be lucky to escape with just a failing exam. The hard set of his features could mean he’s kicking me out of the class altogether. Except he doesn’t berate me when he reaches my desk. He gently lifts Ashton from the carrier, tells me to sit down and keep writing, then walks away, calmly rocking and hushing my baby. For the entire two hours.

Grateful doesn’t begin to describe what I’m feeling, because suddenly, I’m not looking at my old-enough-to-be-my-father professor, I’m seeing the handsome silver fox of a man. And I very much want to be the teacher’s pet…

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