One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 244 Edwin

I stared down at the reports in front of me and felt a surge of anger bubble up in my chest.

"You're sure that this is what's happening?" I asked, glancing up at my Beta. "There's no way you were mistaken?" Charles pursed his lips and leaned back in his chair. That was all the answer I needed.

I smacked my hand on the desk and looked away, clenching my teeth so tightly I thought they might *c*ck. My Beta remained silent, waiting for the storm to pass before he said anything else.

I couldn't shoot the messenger, of course. But the reports that Charles just brought back to me were enough to make my blood boil with fury.

I

According to our recent investigations into orphanages around Crescent territory, we discovered something... unsettling, to say the least. Apparently, it was commonplace for orphanages to commission-that's right, commission-human children to undeserving families.. Such as the family that Audrey was adopted into.

Since human children were often passed over when it came to adoption, I supposed that orphanages grew desperate. So, back in the nineties, a few orphanages started giving incentives to people who were interested in adopting. Adopt a human kid completely under the table-no paperwork, no background check, no money, no wellness checks, nothing.

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for.

exchange, use that child for whatever you wanted, whether it was for cleaning your house or working odd jobs to make ra money for the family or welfare checks or... I didn't want to think about what other things those kids would be used And what was required of the adoptive guardians, you may ask?

Nothing but a small percentage of whatever they earned off of that child.

A strange business model, certainly. But when an orphanage is pawning off dozens of human kids to greedy families every week, the profits add up. "Alpha?" Charles finally dared to speak up.

I

myself out of my spiraling thoughts. Now was not the time to be lamenting over what was happening to those kids-what

had just plopped on my desk-receipts, documents, letters, all proving that this had been going on for decades. Charles sighed. "It's been going on well before you became Alpha," he said. "Long enough for these creeps to get really good at hiding their **hit. Don't beat yourself up over

my good-for-nothing father up over it, I thought bitterly. I wondered if he knew that this had been going on under his leadership, but it was no matter now. I was going to put an end to it. "What should

chair, considering my options. There was one obvious way to go about this: put all

Mon,

better ones. We would have to try and track down any of the

doing that. Uprooting their lives when they'd already been through enough. Siblings might get split up by accident in the frenzy. Children would

count the number of uncorrupt orphanages on one hand, and even if those orphanages weren't taking part in this awful scheme, there could be other issues. "I'm... not sure,"

who aren't actively dealing with the remnants of the Coldclaw situation and send them to intimidate the orphanage directors. Fine them royally, then threaten them with being shut down if they continue the practice." "That doesn't feel like enough," I said more quietly

unbeknownst to her, thrust into this corrupt system.

imagine what some of the other kids

out the problem from the source," I mused, dragging a hand through my hair. "But we also can't just shut down

orphanage directors and appoint

nodded. "That's a

1. We'll

"As

and get

after the adoptive

the directors' replacements?"

my eyes for

just hire strangers, not this quickly. We'd need

on

soon as possible," I finally said. "Ask Silverbite for help, too. Claudia will likely oversee it if need be. She'll want to know, anyway, since her own daughter was part of the f the system." Charles nodded solemnly and rose from his chair. The mention of Audrey was enough to set us both on edge. "You're going

nodded. "I have no choice. She deserves