One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 246

Audrey

Edwin and I settled at a little round bistro table outside the cafe. It was a warm, sunny day, and we were both eager to sit in the sun and enjoy the fresh air. We ordered a couple of sandwiches and two glasses of iced tea, our cups already condensating with little droplets of water by the time they reached our table.

I trailed my finger through the condensation, eyeing my mate warily as I did. He’d said that I would ‘want to be sitting down’ to hear whatever it was he had to say to me, but he seemed to be taking his time in telling me.

Finally, when Edwin remarked about the dessert menu for the third time, I lost my patience.

“What do you have to tell me?” I blurted out, then lowered my voice when I realized that other diners were watching

us. “You made it out like someone died.”

Edwin quickly shook his head. “No, no, nothing like that, I assure you,” he said. He paused and sucked in a deep lungful of air as he raked his fingers through his dark hair, mussing up the carefully-gelled waves. “It’s… about your past, actually.”

I raised an eyebrow in surprise. “Oh? Don’t tell me I have another secret identity. Maybe the Golden Wolf this time?” I asked with a chuckle.

My mate smirked, but shook his head again. “No. It’s about your adoption. Your parents… they adopted you for selfish

reasons.

know. They wanted welfare checks,” I replied. “I’ve always known that.”

“But there’s more to it,” Edwin said. At that moment, he reached across the table and laced my fingers with his. Only then did my heart begin to pound, because the way he was looking at me just then was the kind of look he only gave me when he had some bad news.

And it was bad news.

Over the next few minutes, our iced teas sat untouched while Edwin explained to me what he had learned-what happened to human children in so many orphanages across Crescent territory.

What had happened to me.

one of the lucky ones, growing up with adoptive parents who just wanted to use my presence

it didn’t make

I leaned back in my chair, my eyes wide as saucers. Our sandwiches must have come at some point, but I hadn’t even noticed the

sorry,” Edwin

up at him. “Sorry? It’s not

just paid attention, then I could have stopped

to let Edwin blame himself. “Well, we’re doing something about it

Edwin was silent.

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are, aren’t we?”

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We’re going to work with Silverbite to begin a hiring

I wanted to get your input before we do anything else,” he said. “Obviously, I didn’t want to displace the children in

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other kids in the orphanage often endured, being separated from friends and siblings against their will. I also knew the pain of being happily adopted myself, only to

in shambles. Not to mention tracking down

had grown up was a mess. My first adoptive mother, Meredith, had done her best during her time there, but… The director of the place

of the nicer places to live,

said, glancing up at Edwin. “If Crescent has the funding to

really derelict ones, may need to be

course. It didn’t make

who have already been ‘adopted”?” I asked. “Will they go back to the orphanages? And as for the adults who grew up in this system

Edwin replied. “You know what it’s like to claw your way up after a rough upbringing. If we could make some sort of program for those who have been affected, then

programs as well as what to do with the kids who needed to be rescued

of Crescent, and I’d made a promise to help whoever I could, no matter the personal risks. Even if I didn’t sleep for a month just to help one kid, then I’d

me as a kid. No one-not my teachers, not my peers, not even my doctors-even noticed

make sure that if there were other kids who had no one to notice that they

it gave me some sense of purpose. Since I still didn’t know what the hell I wanted to