He nodded his head, truly amazed that she would agree. “All right, then. You understand that I will insinuate myself into your life until you’ll likely be sick of me. That might be difficult for you given the streak of independence that seems so important to you.”
“Perhaps, perhaps not,” she replied. She was thinking in advance of the professor, measuring her physical and emotional response to the proposal and to him. Something in his manner had been intriguing her for months, though she’d ignored the erotic implications. He was a professor, but he was also opening a door… “I don’t know why I’m doing this, Professor Rossi, but I will. Maybe it’s foolish, but it couldn’t be any more foolish than a lot of other things I’ve done—like spending three years in this university and leaving with n
