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to students in class. Essays I had not been given a chance to read, ever. I don’t think I’ve read a student essay yet. I knew there was more to you than those never-ending legs.”
    Avery smiled. “I thought we were going to keep this professional.”
    “This is professional. I gave you a professional compliment. I never said I’d leave your physical attributes out of our conversation.”
    “Blake, maybe we should slow down the physical side of our relationship. You know? Maybe curtail that a bit to get to know one another?”
    Blake stood and leaned over Avery’s desk. He placed both hands on the desk as he leaned in towards Avery’s neck to nibble gently just below her ear. He made his way down her neck and then back up again to her face to kiss her tenderly, still leaving his hands on his desk. Avery was breathless when he was finished.
    “Now, what was that about curtailing the physical aspects of our relationship?”
    “Um, forget I said anything. I think we can handle both at the same time. I’m a doctor, aren’t I?”
    Blake chuckled. “Well then, doctor, thanks for the assignment. I am truly sorry to say I have to go because I’d really like to make use of that couch over there. I wish I’d have noticed it earlier. Shall we meet tonight?”
    “Yes, but let’s start somewhere public, so we can get some actual conversation in?”
    Blake sat down again, looking rather concerned. “You don’t know?”
    “Know what?” Avery asked.
    “Two years ago a professor had a relationship with a student, wasn’t even a student in his class. It was consensual, however, he was looking for a long-term relationship, and she was looking for some short-term fun. So, needless to say, it ended badly, and he didn’t exactly handle it well. She went from being a straight-A student to earning Ds on her essays and received a D for the class. She filed a complaint against the professor and with the university. The department reviewed the complaint and her essays before and after her plummet in grades and found in the student’s favor. They changed her grade. That would have been the end of it, but her father was a lawyer, and when he found out that she had been sleeping with her professor prior to her slip in grades, he stepped in and filed a rather large lawsuit against the university. The professor was ‘asked’ to move on, and the family was well compensated. To avoid any future embarrassment, as the dean put it, he added to the university bylaws that faculty and students, graduate students included, are not allowed any romantic relationships of any kind while the student is enrolled here at Cross University, or it will result in termination of the faculty’s employment, regardless of tenure status.”
    “Oh.”
    That was all Avery could get out. She felt deflated as she knew that Blake would not be a graduate for another four months when they’d be free to pursue their relationship in the open. This was also the time he’d be free to pursue a full-time job anywhere he chose. In the meantime, they’d have to sneak around, risking both their careers, hoping they didn’t get caught. She knew that was the only option because waiting four months to pursue an open relationship with Blake, working every day side by side, simply was not. She was too emotionally involved now.
    As if reading her thoughts, Blake said, “There’s no way I’m waiting until graduation to touch you again. I knew about the rule when I started this with you. I thought you did. I figured they’d go over things like when they hired you. I’ll sneak around as long as I have to.”
    “I don’t like the idea of sneaking around. I want to stay on track for tenure track. But that being said, knowing it’s only for a couple of months, and not indefinitely, makes me willing to do it. That and I honestly don’t think I could work with you over the semester if you weren’t fucking me, too.”
    Blake smiled at Avery’s use of salty language.