One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Third Person & Audrey

Third Person POV

Edwin's Beta, Charles, strode down the hall toward the sound of the voices. Up ahead, nestled into the old-fashioned wallpaper and dark wood moldings, was a cracked open door.

Charles stepped into the dimly lit room to find a scene that he had not expected: three students clustered together amongst the rows of fabric and other supplies. There, he saw her: the girl that Edwin had asked him to find information on.

The other two students were holding her down and attempting to cut her hair.

"What are you three doing?" Charles barked, causing all three students to jump. The girl holding the scissors, a brunette with a pointed face and a guilty look in her eyes, quickly dropped the scissors behind a nearby shelf-but Charles had already seen them.

"Who are you?" the male student, a tall and muscular young man with blond hair and green eyes, retorted.

Charles shrugged. "I'm the person who's going to get you both expelled if you don't leave this girl alone," he said, leaning over a little to get a closer look at the third student, who was currently clutching her black hair and practically trembling. "Are you Audrey Thatcher?"

The black-haired girl nodded. Charles took a step closer, and now that he was out of the doorway, the other two students scurried past him. He didn't bother to give them a second look, although he had already memorized their faces.

"Are you alright?" Charles asked softly. He reached out to touch the girl's shoulder, but she recoiled on instinct, clearly traumatized by what had just happened.

"Y-Yes," she said, a blatant lie-Charles could see the tears blurring her eyes. Here, in the dim light of the storage room, her eyes almost appeared purple in color.

"It's alright if you're not," Charles assured her, glancing down at the dark black splotch of ink on her sweater. "I'll take you to—"

"Really, I'm fine." The girl straightened, her eyes momentarily meeting his. He saw her gaze widen before she quickly looked away and scurried past him, picking up a bolt of plaid fabric laying on the floor. "Thank you, but I have to go. I'll see you in class later, Professor Brooks."

Edwin had been the one who sent him to speak with her-but it was too late. The girl was already practically running down the hall, her

watched her go and wondered if he should contact Edwin to let him know that the girl he was

so quickly, and simply let Edwin discover this little

Audrey's POV

than they ever had, and for the first time ever, I found myself silently cursing my heeled boots as I bolted back to my dorm. Once there, I quickly changed out of my ruined sweater and into a fresh one, sprinting out and making it to class with

killed Linda for what she did to my beloved sweater, really. I had spent months

up at just the right time and had saved the day. I would have to thank him myself for what he had done once class was over, I thought

doubted that there would be much for the teaching

gaze down the wide lecture hall steps toward the podium. A tall, broad-shouldered figure wearing a tweed jacket and dark trousers, the top two buttons of his

knot at the

getting up and making a run for it. But it was too late. Without preamble, Edwin

Brooks. Welcome

who I saw in the storeroom earlier not

door-but it was already shut, and the class had gone quiet as

"Francine Adams..."

"Here."

"Robert Ainsley."

"Here, sir."

a teaching assistant, not a student. That was a relief, at least; but in the meantime, with my heart

the back door so he couldn't get a good look at my face. Or maybe I could hide beneath my desk until class was over. Or maybe I could just sink

At the back,

noticed me after all; one body in

was better to just stay anonymous until class was over. And then I could drop my teaching assistantship, take the blacklist, move schools,