One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 264

Audrey

We were getting closer. I could tell by the way that Peter slowed the van, the sound of gravel crunching under the tires growing fainter. From outside, m****ed voices reached us. I felt Edwin wrap his arm around my waist, tugging me close against him in the darkness of the ‘cargo’ area.

This wasn’t our plan. We were just supposed to follow the other van to its destination without raising any red flags, and yet everything had gone wrong.

But we had little choice left now, did we?

Finally, the van came to a stop and footsteps approached. Edwin and I held our breath as we heard a gruff voice bark, “Did you capture them?”

“Yeah,” Peter replied, his voice surprisingly steady as if he had done this a hundred times before. “I got ’em. Where should I take them?”

The pause that followed was excruciating. Papers rustled, and I felt like time was stretching on forever.

Then, at last, the man said, “Take them through the back. Don’t want any of the kids seeing them. And hurry up.”

The van lurched forward again, and I finally allowed myself to let out a tiny breath of relief, although it did little to ease my nerves. Beside me, Edwin’s hand twitched, and I could hear his voice through the bond. “You okay?”

I nodded tightly, although I wasn’t sure either of us believed it. None of this felt right, but we couldn’t just leave Betty on her own-especially not now that they knew they’d been set up. If they hurt her…

I clenched my jaw, refusing to imagine that outcome.

The van rolled to another stop a few moments later. Then Peter’s voice came through the wall separating the cargo space from the cab. “Coast is clear. Let’s go.”

We moved quickly, slipping out of the van and into the loading dock. The air here smelled heavily of gasoline and oil, making me cover my mouth and nose with my sleeve. Dim light filtered through the grimy windows, casting long shadows across the concrete floor.

Ahead of us loomed the warehouse. Inside, I could hear the sound of machinery. And shouting.

“This way,” Peter whispered, his voice barely audible as he gestured to a side door. “I think the boss man is expecting us, but it’s still best if we stay out of sight. Don’t want a dozen guards following us around.

followed him inside, slipping into the shadows as we moved further into the complex. The first thing that hit me was the smell-oil, sweat, and something else, something I couldn’t place but that

that greeted us made me

Fear.

and other equipment stretched out across the dark warehouse, each one manned by… a child. They worked in silence, heads

As we passed, it became more obvious that they were

his fists clenching at his sides. His immediate fury

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were everywhere, pacing the aisles in those same dark uniforms with batons clutched in their hands. My mind

I

next to a small boy who had dropped a spool of thread on the ground and was fumbling to pic it up. He tapped his

it up,” the guard snarled impatiently. “Or no

to pick up the thread. The sight of it made my stomach turn, my wolf itching t jump in and do

sensing my anger. “But trust me, once we do that, have your way with all of

you c

men and women who were wielding them. And

of the warehouse. “I think the main office is up there. If we ca

picked up our pace, weaving between stacks of fabric and crates, being careful all the while to stay out of sight. The children didn’t even glance up as we passed, their eyes glued to their work, too scared or too

we passed only fueled the fire that

us freeze. There was no

widened. corner, and the moment they saw

of them started, but I was already moving. My training kicked in like it was my one sole instinct, everything Edwin had drilled into me over the past year coming

under the first guard’s swing, driving my elbow hard into his solar plexus. He doubled over with a grunt, and I

We dragged the bodies behind a nearby stack of crates, taking their key cards and their batons