#Chapter 136: What the Professor Knows

Aurora POV The campus looks different when you’re married. Or maybe it’s me who’s different, still carrying the glow of my wedding night like a secret tucked beneath my clothes, warming me from the inside out. The sky is gray, the buildings their same softened stone, the quad full of sleepy students holding cardboard coffee cups, but everything feels gentler, safer. Or maybe I just feel claimed. Seen. Protected. Speaking of, Luca walks next to me, guarding me like a handsome lion in a suit. I tell him we don’t need to hide anything anymore. Not the ring on my finger, not the faint marks that Dominic’s kisses left on my throat, not the truth of who I married. The entire world could look at me today and I don’t think I’d even blush. Dominic told me this morning that danger doesn’t disappear just because I’m officially his wife. In fact, it may multiply. But he also said something else, something that’s been echoing in my mind since I stepped out of