One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 261

Audrey

“Does this man look familiar to you?”

Edwin slowly pushed the drawing across the cold metal interrogation table. Sophia sat on the other side of that table, her hair hanging in her face, her eyes ringed with dark circles, and her orange jumpsuit wrinkled.

She’d been in solitary confinement for days, and yet somehow, she still hadn’t cracked.

But she would today. Because the drawing that Joseph gave us… It had to mean something. And Sophia knew what it meant. We were sure of it.

Her expression was unreadable as ever as she slowly leaned forward and inspected the drawing. There was a brief silence before she shrugged and leaned back in her chair.

“I’m afraid I don’t recognize that man,” she replied casually.

I leaned forward, pressing my fingers into the cool metal. “Really? Because that little human boy with soot in his lungs, Joseph, seemed pretty adamant that this man–‘Mr. B‘–had something to do with his torment.”

Sophia’s lips curled into a small smile, cold and humorless. “Children say and do the darndest things, don’t they?”

My blood began to boil at the corrupt orphanage director’s cool attitude. I wanted to throttle her until she finally spilled whatever secrets she was hiding. And I almost did. I could feel my muscles tingling to leap across the table and show her what happened to people who didn’t cooperate.

But then Edwin’s hand brushed against my arm, pulling me out of my temporary stupor. “Tread lightly,” his voice echoed through our Mindlink. “She’s cracking. I can feel it.”

He was right; I could see the flicker of something in her eyes, the tiniest crack in her calm facade.

So I took a breath to steady myself and stepped back, letting my mate take over.

“Let me tell you what I see,” Edwin said, his voice deceptively soft. “I see the face of a man. A man who is apparently connected to you. A man who is involved in the illegal buying and selling of human children from your orphanage.”

Sophia remained silent.

“At least, that’s how it seems,” Edwin said, folding his arms across his chest. “Perhaps I’m wrong. And perhaps, if I sentence you to death, I’ll never get the opportunity to find out if I am wrong.”

Her smile faltered. Just for a second, but it was enough. “You’re bluffing,” she said with a huff.

very long time. But when it comes

us what you know,” I said slowly, carefully,

a little too quickly, “I

stared at her, long and hard, searching her face for any crack in the mask she had so carefully constructed. She was trembling now, the slightest quiver in

uncertainty in her mind. The barest fracture in that adamant wall she’d somehow

my chance. Before she could steel herself again,

blurred, dissolving around me, and I was suddenly plunged into the storm

crying, men in uniforms, unmarked vans. A pile

cash. “He wanted me to instruct you to put this money toward your infirmary. We need the kids healthy before they come to

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she flipped through the bills in her hand. “I hope he left extra for me.

worry. There’s plenty left

rush of phantom wind, I was thrust out of Sophia’s mind. Those mental walls of

whispered, shoving what I had seen through the bond so Edwin could see for himself. “She has been selling the children. To

B.,” he said slowly. “I can think of one man with those initials: Atticus Black. Mr.

as if the floor disappeared from beneath my feet. Mr. Black… Was he truly

this true?” I asked, turning to face Sophia again. “This ‘anonymous benefactor‘ of

slumped as she realized that she’d

ask questions,” she choked out. “I–I just took the money. He… he wanted the children in

he was sick, wasn’t he? Atticus didn’t want him because he wasn’t healthy enough to

tears

what she had done. She could have refused the offer, could have said no. But

other and left the interrogation room.

of whiskey he was holding. “But we

was dark as we all sat around the coffee table, a couple of candles casting flickering light on the walls. Peter ran his hands through his hair in one of the armchairs, Tina sat cross–legged on the

here to discuss what we had learned. We needed as many minds working on this problem as

pacing behind the sofa, mused. “See where they’re headed, then storm the so–called ‘factory‘ that Sophia

on one of those