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 made

us made me realize what the smell

Fear.

stretched out across the dark warehouse, each one manned by… a child. They worked in silence, heads down, fingers moving, feeding fabric through the machines like they

more than eight, maybe nine years old. As we passed, it became more obvious that they were making clothes. Hundreds

fists clenching at his sides. His immediate

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batons clutched in their hands. My mind immediately went

I

thread on the ground and was fumbling to pic it up. He tapped his baton ominously against his palm as he sneered down at the

guard snarled impatiently. “Or no dinner

boy’s hands trembled as he scrambled to pick up the thread. The sight of it made my stomach turn, my wolf itching t jump in and do something. But I had

trust me, once we do that, have your way with all of these ba***ds. I know

you c

nodded, already relishing the thought of turning those batons on the men and women who were

low, pointed to a metal staircase at the far end of the warehouse. “I think the main office is up there. If we ca yes narrowing dangerously, and added, “An

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

the fire that was

of approaching footsteps made us freeze. There was no time to hide-two guards rounded

eyes widened. corner, and the moment they saw

started, but I was already moving. My training kicked in like it was my one sole instinct, everything Edwin had drilled into me

doubled over with a grunt, and I brought my knee up into his face, knocking him out cold before

and silent. We dragged the bodies behind a nearby