One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 19 Audrey

"I can't wait to put the finishing touches on my pantsuit today. It's gonna look so great!"

"Me neither! I just need to make the hat for my top and skirt ensemble, and then I'm all done."

As Tina, Avis and I walked to our studio, the sound of their excited chatter brought a smile to my face. I sipped my coffee, feeling just as excited as they were; after all, we would be finished with our entries for th "We'll have to celebrate when we're all finished, Tina suggested, our shoes clicking on the tiled floorways as we walked in tandem. "I need a drink

after all that work."

"Ugh. Me too." Avis audibly cracked her neck without missing a beat. "These past two weeks have felt like fabric hell. I need a cold beer, some nachos to share, and to dance the night away

Tina giggled. "What about you, Audrey?"

I offered my

friends a smile and nodded as I fished our studio keys out of my pocket. "It's a date."

My smile faded, however, the moment the door creaked open.

There, in the center of the small studio space, were our three mannequins-

or at least, what used to be our mannequins. Not anymore, though. No, our three painstaking outfits that we had tirelessly spent two weeks constructing had been..

Destroyed.

Avis was the first to react. She let out a small squeak of shock, dropping her coffee to the floor. The milky liquid splashed across the tiles, soaking our shoes, but none of us noticed.

hell?!" she cried out, surging forward and

to her mannequin, where her adorable pantsuit had been shredded practically down to

My mouth hung open as

strewn all about the studio as if a rabid cat had gotten

and scraps of leather were scattered across the floor, feathers floating lazily in the breeze

fabric, and even the Mac computer that the school assigned to each studio space had been

while we worked over the past two weeks had been turned into a warzone. "Audrey, Audrey!" The sound of Tina's voice snapped me out of my daze, and I blinked to see her and Avis standing

the window to inspect the glass. It hadn't been broken, but I knew for a fact that we had closed it before we left last night. Someone must have opened it and

my hair.

"We'll get funding if we pass the preliminary round, but until then, we're

said, chucking

office and see what they can do. In the meantime,

afford to make

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Chapter 19

Clutching the folder containing my scholarship application, I strode up to the desk with my

word from the scholarship office that something was

needed to submit everything again. It was a drag, but I still managed to scrape my files together quickly. I

the face of the professor who had given me that envelope in front of Edwin's

I said, holding out my folder with a terse smile. "I called earlier about an

my file and flipped

"Audrey Thatcher."

before letting out a huff

"I-What?" I breathed, my eyes widening to twice their original size. "That