My Professor Is My Alpha Mate
#Chapter 116 – The Flight to Monstro

Lila's POV

"Did my father put you up to this?" I asked, staring at him with such shock.

Val was instantly in a better mood as she cooed “I told you so.”

“He might have mentioned not wanting you to go on this trip alone,” Enzo admitted.

“I can't believe he would do that,” I said, feeling a little hurt.

“He cares about you and was worried,” Enzo said with a shrug.

“You're busy enough. He didn’t need to pull you away from your duties this summer to babysit me.” “I was probably going to go anyways,” he said, sounding disinterested as he looked out the window. "What? Why?" I asked, peering over at him with raised brows.

He sighed before looking back at me.

“Do you really have to ask?”

We stayed silent for a moment longer; staring at one another. I felt like the breath was taken right out of my mouth and my heart was beating rapidly against my chest.

At one point, Enzo looked down at my lips and I thought that maybe he would kiss me. Part of me was hoping that he would.

But he didn't.

The stewardess returned with a can of Pepsi.

"Here's your soda, mam,” she said, handing it to me.

I thanked her kindly while she went to check on everyone else.

Enzo rolled his eyes as I took a sip.

“Those aren't good for you,” he muttered.

“They calm my nerves,” I told him in return.

Was he seriously about to take a nap right now?

That selfish jer—

Before I could finish my thought, he was putting the neck pillow around my neck and shoving the earbuds into my ears.

He started playing some lovely classical music on his phone.

Then he put the eye mask over my eyes so I couldn't see anything. I was closed in my own little dark world. Nothing could hurt me, and Val was feeling incredibly relaxed as well.

“Finally...” Enzo muttered. “I can get some peace.”

His voice faded out as the music grew louder; I wanted to scold him for treating me like a child, but I felt incredibly relaxed so I couldn't be too mad.

I felt the plane lifted into the air, but I couldn't see anything.

This was it... it was on my way to Monstro.

With Enzo.

At some point during the flight, I fell asleep. When I woke up, it was nighttime. I took the eye mask off my face and peered around the plane. It looked like the majority of everyone was fast asleep. There was a blanket draped over me that wasn't there before I fell asleep.

The only one who seemed to be awake still was Enzo.

"Did you sleep at all?” I asked in, keeping my tone low so I wouldn't disturb anyone else.

"A little,” he said, not looking at me. “I don't sleep well on planes.”

“Do you want the eye mask? It helps,” I said, handing it over to him.

He didn't take it.

“It's fine,” he muttered. “You should get more sleep.”

“I slept a lot already,” I told him. “I'm sorry my father made you come with me.”

I felt a sense of guilt knowing that Enzo has so much going on already and now he was stuck traveling across the world to babysit me.

“Don't be. I could use a vacation.”

I stayed silent for a moment longer.

“I never got a chance to thank you,” I said, peering over at him.

“For what?"

“That painting. I saw it after you left. It's really beautiful,” I told him, feeling my face growing warm. “It wasn't really much of anything. I had the artists at the studio paint it after your portrait got destroyed.”

“It was incredibly sweet of you to think of me.”

My wolf was practically begging to be released; she was in sweet bliss being this close to him. I knew she was starting to doubt him before our flight. But once she saw him on the plane, she was very pleased.

That made me happy, but it also worried me at the same time.

Was his motive to be closer to me as his mate? Or was he just doing what my father asked of him? Hours later, the plane was landing, and we were on the ground safely. I would be lying if I said I wasn't relieved. The sun was up by the time we landed and everybody leaving the plane looked exhausted.

“Lila!!” I heard my name being called across the airport once we got off the terminal.

I saw Cassidy-Ann rushing toward me with a wide smile on her face. She already looked tan from her time here.

“I'm so glad you're here. I've been going crazy without my assistant,” she said, hugging me tightly. She released me and glanced up at Enzo.

“Hello, Alpha. I heard you would be here as well,” she said, smiling at Enzo. “I took it upon myself to book you both a shared room.”

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