One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 48

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The lights in the auditorium flickered, indicating that the assembly was about to begin, and the bustling audience began to quiet down. By now, practically every seat was -no student at Grayspring Academy wanted to miss this.

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Because today, the teams who would make it to the next round of the fashion. competition would be announced. Those who were selected would cross the stage and collect their badges from the vice dean, and those who didn't show up to collect would be disqualified. Therefore, no one dared to play h**k*y.

Ay**n escaped my lips despite my attempts to keep it at bay. I passed my hand over my face and leaned against the railing, my tired eyes scanning the auditorium. I had hardly slept all night, and I was starting to feel the effects of it now-gone were the days of being able to pull all-nighters and feel perfectly fine in the morning, I supposed.

Charles, leaning on the railing beside me, nudged me with his elbow.

"Hey. You alright, Alpha?"

I turned to shoot him a sidelong glance. "Yeah. Why?"

Charles merely shrugged in response, causing me to purse my lips. He was always too astute for his own goo**s noticing the slightest shift in my attitude, the smallest twitch in my stony mask. He didn't pry, but he knew that something had happened last night. Audrey. Audrey had happened.

I could still feel her delicate little finger on my arm, the way her waist looked so unbelievably slender when she had bent over the bar. A dare, she had said. I wanted to be mad at her for that, but I couldn't.

And as much as I didn't want to admit it, that little display was the thing that had kept me up for most of the night. I wouldn't deny it to myself any longer: I wanted her.

But I couldn't have her.

Even though I had momentarily lost my sense of restraint last night and gave in to the urge to touch her and pull her closer, that was as far as it could go.

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obstacles in the way. Not with our age difference, or our status difference, or the risk of losing

to catch a glimpse. Up ahead, I spotted her four friends sitting toward

the corners of my lips then as I saw the

muttered, leaning forward to get a better look. Audrey

my perturbed expression. "Something

the railing. Something was... off about this. Audrey was always infuriatingly punctual to everything she did, and for her to not be here this close to the assembly starting... I had

on the shoulder with one

an eyebrow.

he could finish, I was already turning on my heel and

when I asked the students if they had seen her, they all shrugged and seemed confused. Huffing, I continued down the hall. I slipped my phone out of my pocket and

car.

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to voicemail without so much as

mind, I could feel my wolf beginning to raise his hackles. "Something feels wrong," he growled, growing restless. "I can sense it. Is

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frowned and opened my mouth to tell him that it was likely nothing, but then quickly shut it again-because truthfully, I didn't know. This was so uncharacteristic of her that, despite my hesitation to jump to conclusions, I

gaze, and poking my head into classrooms. Each time, I was met with empty rooms-everyone had made it to the assembly, and

annual

out, picking up my pace to a slight jog.

throat: screams. M**ed screams coming from down the hallway-and there, at the end of the hall, a utility closet door rattling in

Audrey.

nightmare; I picked up into a sprint, charging full-force at the door. I reached for the handle and tried it, only to find that it had been locked with a key.