One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 249

Audrey

“Take her into custody,” Edwin said as he cradled the little boy’s limp body against his chest. “Don’t let the children see.”

“Yes, Alpha.” Charles exited the room, and a moment later, I could hear Sophia’s shouts as the warriors cuffed her and took her away. Edwin and I were alone again, both still reeling from everything that had just happened.

“I don’t understand how it’s possible,” I whispered as I stared at the little boy’s pained face. “I questioned her before. She seemed perfectly innocent.”

Edwin’s jaw was set in a hard line. “There’s still a lot we don’t know. Maybe she shielded her mind somehow.”

I shuddered at the thought. All along I knew that my mind reading powers weren’t entirely indomitable, that it was possible to shield oneself from having their memories probed, but the idea that someone could hide such atrocities was a chilling realization.

“Well, she’s in custody now,” Edwin continued. “We’ll call one of your mother’s representatives to take over here and we’ll look for more evidence in the meantime.”

As Edwin spoke, I swallowed hard and looked down at the little boy. He was still unconscious and weak, even after I’d laid my hands on him and healed him. It had taken a lot of effort to heal him, so much in fact that I’d drained nearly all of my Silver Star energy for the day and wouldn’t be able to interrogate Sophia until it was replenished.

Soot. That was what I felt in his lungs when I’d healed him.

“They must be sending the kids to a factory somewhere in Coldclaw,” I mused, my voice trembling slightly. “That’s what I saw in his mind, at least.”

I suppressed another shiver at the memory of how his mind had instinctively reached for me the moment I poked my head into the room. It was as if he was so desperate to be heard, to be understood, that his subconscious had been frantically searching for help.

I knew how that felt. The desperation, the hope that someone would just notice my pain.

My mate sighed and moved to lay the little boy back down on the bed. “Maybe he’ll share his story with us once he wakes—”

“Wait.” I placed my hand on Edwin’s arm before he could set the boy down and gave him a pleading look. Edwin’s shoulders slumped a little, his eyebrows shooting up as he gathered what I was implying. “Audrey…” “Please,” I said, tears beginning to blur my vision. “I can’t leave him here.”

A little while later, we sat around the living room back at the apartment, both of us too tired and stunned to speak.

The little boy, whose name we’d learned was Joseph, still laid mostly unconscious beneath a pile of blankets on the couch. He’d woken up briefly to sip some water, but hadn’t really been cognizant.

him back to the apartment, even though I knew it was unnecessary. The replacement for Sophia would have

just couldn’t leave

his eyes and still being in the place that had sold him off like a prize cow. I couldn’t stand wondering if he would feel fear right away, if

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Chapter 249

his unconscious state, then maybe he would trust

stranger.

and brought him back to the apartment with us.

recovery process will be a lot slower than a werewolf. But he’s stable,” I said, pulling my

nodded and we both moved to the kitchen to make some tea. While the kettle boiled,

when you said we were thinking of

adopting Joseph. I just couldn’t leave him

didn’t fully believe me but said nothing more about it. But I meant what I

of a knock on the door pulled us both out of our heads, and we pulled apart. I took the kettle off the heat and prepared the tea while Edwin went to see who it was. A few moments later, I heard muffled voices and

Eliza

little angel out there?” she breathed, setting a plate

tea, but she shook her head. Edwin was standing behind her, hands

and more as we spoke until I

to which I nodded. “Oh, the poor little

little boy, who was still fast asleep. Wordlessly, she crossed the living room and crouched beside him, brushing little brown

cookies. “I’ll have to make

me you’re planning on taking him,

at him over her shoulder. “And would it be a

at all. But I mean… since when have you

bit shocked, too; as long as I’d known Eliza, she’d always seemed miles away from the ‘mothering‘

that I had to look away and blink

house,” Eliza explained, rising, her eyes still fixed on the boy. “And I have plenty of