My Professor Is My Alpha Mate

Chapter 271 Emergency At The School

Lila’s POV

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“They found somebody dead?” I asked in a h oar se whisper, turning to face Enzo who had a grave look on his face. I knew from his face alone that it was true and suddenly my heart hurt. I had to leari against him. to support the weight of my body before I completely fell over.

I felt dizzy, like I wanted to pass out at any moment and my breathing became incredibly shallow.

Enzo didn’t answer me at first; he only looked beyond the area and at the many police cars that were parked in the lot, along with the ambulance.

“Like a student?” I continued to ask, staring at him still and unable to look away..

“Yes; a student,” he finally answered, audibly swallowing

“Who?”

I wasn’t sure I wanted to know the answer, but the knot in my stomach wasn’t going to leave this alone.

“I’m not sure,” he said shaking his head. “I should have reported it sooner.”

“You knew about it?” I asked, furrowing my brows together.

I stepped out of his strong embrace and peered up at him.

“I smelled something off earlier,” he admitted, meeting my eyes. “It smelled like rotting flesh; it was disgusting. Made me nearly throw up. But the scent faded after a little while.”

“What made it fade?”

“I don’t know..” he said, and the look on his face, I knew he was telling me the truth. “But it was after I saw

His voice faded suddenly.

“After you saw what?” I pressed.

He met my eyes again and I saw that he was struggling with this next sentence; my stomach clenched at the very thought of what he was about to say.

“It was after I saw Rachel.”

I gasped at his words and stepped even further away as if he had just slapped me across the face.

“You think she did this?”

“I didn’t say that,” he said quickly.

“You didn’t have to. I can see it on your face,” I said, getting a bit worked up.

He grabbed my arms and held me in place, forcing me to look at him.

much slower as he looked into

my body calming slightly, but not by

acting strange lately,” I said, remembering his words from earlier during class. He was worried about her and

return, furrowing his brows together. “It doesn’t mean I think she killed

how this

looking back at the police who were speaking to a

main doors of the academic center and carrying a stretcher. Whoever was on the stretcher was covered with a blanket and shielded from onlookers. There were a lot of students who were

tears in her eyes, and she looked as if she was about to get sick. I was about to get sick as well and I needed to bury my face in Enzo’s chest to

held me tightly; not wanting

what they were saying. I purposely blocked them out, but I knew Enzo was listening of the whole thing. He

cause of death?” I found myself asking through my tear-filled

onto my

I don’t think you should

me,” I said, much more confidently

but remained

not sure what I was doing or why I wanted to know

and suffered some heavy force

relief from hearing it. If she was drained from her blood, then the likelihood of Rachel doing that was slim. She

The thought was sickening.

Rachel,” I murmured. “She

not,” he agreed. “Sounds like it was a

up at him with a gaping mouth, my heart nearly beating out of

“A vampire?”

was drained from her body,” Enzo repeated.

the committee…” 1 breathed, unable to contain the tears any longer. They flowed down my features, and I let out a small s ob. “Skylar didn’t

said calmly. “There

then everybody is going to stereotype them.”

say something more, but

to return to

go talk to Headmaster Prescott; I started to numbly move in her direction,

for me,” he

to protest, but the look on his face quickly shut me up. I watched as he walked over to Headmaster Prescott and Alpha Jonathan, both of whom

the officer was part of his pack, so it was only right that Alpha Jonathan was the one telling him what

are collecting evidence as we speak and once we gather enough, we will pull students and speak with them

vampires,” Alpha Jonathan seethed, making

trying to keep herself calm. “There are a lot of students here

Jonathan hissed. “We

neck,” the officer said, staring down at his notes with a timid frown. “But it seemed as if her body was

what are you saying? A wolf did

that either. The officer began to say but was interrupted when

Professor Enzo. As you can see, things are a bit messy tonight. I might need your help getting students back to

if there was anything else I could do to help and find out a bit more information. Do we

the night investigating and then pull students in for questioning. I think it’s wise if we cancel classes for the rest