Labyrinth

Chapter 7

Chloe's POV

This is so confusing. Why do my two professors have to be the hottest men I've ever met. They ignite something in me. Something I've never told anyone about. When Thomas put his name as 'Master', I felt myself get even wetter.

It's something that I've wanted to go further into. I mean, I know it was probably a wind up but, especially after what Nate did to me, I'm pretty sure that he, at least, is into it. And Thomas watched so he must have some interest. I kind of hope so. No- I don't. They're my professors. This needs to be professional.

Why have they made this so confusing? Now you're blaming them for your mistakes? I need to apologise to them.

I decide to set up all my work stuff on my desk, trying to find the notes online. Once I get everything ready, I send an identical text to both Tom and Nate, 'I'm really sorry for earlier, I'll stop bothering you.'

I throw my phone on my bed and ignore it whilst I finish all of my lecture notes and go over some of the questions from the massive booklet of example questions that Professor Hewitt put up. After I feel content with the topic, I move onto some English notes. I try and go over the next lecture's notes and read over them. I put them to the side and try blurting the information on a whiteboard I brought from home.

I decide I should take a break and head over to my bed. I pick up my phone and see multiple messages from both of them and even a missed call or two:

'Sexy stranger: It's all in the past, Chloe. And you'd never bother us.

Sexy stranger: Are you okay?

Sexy stranger: Chloe, answer the phone.

Sexy stranger: You shouldn't apologise for earlier.'

'Master T: You have nothing to apologise for, Chloe. Are you feeling alright?

Master T: Don't ignore me, you aren't bothering us. Why would you think that?

Master T: Chloe?'

This is going to be so awkward now. Why did I have to make everything awkward. I don't want to explain my thoughts to them but I probably will sometime, right?

My room starts to feel stuffy so I pack all my work into a bag and decide to head to the café. Nate might be there but that's fine. I don't even have to say much, just tell him that I was working.

I connect my headphones and head out of the door.

No time like the present, right? I hope I haven't annoyed them too much. Although I would be annoyed if someone sent me a message then ghosted me for over 2 hours.

I finally reach the café-library which I've found to love. I think it's a mixture of the atmosphere, the warmth it provides and the person I associate with it.

I head up the stairs and take a seat at a random table. I set all of my work up but then decide to browse the books on the shelves seeing as I've somehow not done that before. I get to the dusty shelves which show that no one really looks at these books. I skim my finger over the spines of the and randomly stop at one. The title reads 'Ours' by L.N Wells. I read the blurb and find that it's a book about a polyamorous relationship between two men and a woman. One extra thing, it has BDSM elements to it. I may or may not be interested into BDSM after learning about it a while ago and I didn't really do much research into it then, but recently I've done more and I want to read books including it, I guess. It's kind of lucky that the café even has a book like this. It probably got here by the book-for-book scheme - where you can trade a book on the shelves for a book you bought from home.I go back to my table and pull out an old book that I had read a while ago. It seems like a good read to so I turn around but I'm blocked by something.