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Raven steps out of the car and glances around, recognising Royce’s location to be an old railway track, no longer in use, by the looks of it.Her gaze is snatched by the sight of Royce undressing on the other side and she lets her gaze stay on him for a while, noticing how sculpted his body is with defined muscles and handsome features as he takes his shirt off and for the first time, she does not mind admitting that he looks rather attractive.As Royce puts his hand on the bands of his pants to pull it down, Raven quickly looks away, her heart racing slightly and her cheeks go red. Although she should not be affected since nudity is a thing common among their kind, it just feels weird to her.Royce seems to take notice of her demeanour, letting out a chuckle.“What's wrong? don't like what you see?” His tone is teasing and half-serious.Raven shakes her head, feeling her cheeks grow even hotter than before.“It's not that. It's just…”She tries to explain, still very conscious of k
After the whole day just resting and trying not to dwell too much on anything, Raven finally allows her mind to wander and dwell on everything that has happened to her with the professor of late. It’s so hard for her to believe that the man she once trusted and looked up to immensely would turn out to be someone like that.She remembers seeing him walking out of the lab with a cooler after she returned but thought nothing of it but now she realises that it must have contained the wolfsbane extract he had taken with him into his office.What could he have taken it for and now that she thinks of it, she had never seen any of the previous ones being emptied out of the trash.Her phone vibrates on the bedside table next to her and she glances at it to see a call from the professor yet again.Unfortunately, this wasn't the first, she lost count after the fifth call and just muted her notifications. There were several messages too, she had stopped reading after the first two demanding her r
Raven steps out of the building to the sight of Royce ahead of her, leaning against his car with his arms folded and he leans away at the sight of her.For the first time, she is happy to see him.Royce's presence gives her a feeling of safety, one that she desperately needs after what she had discovered last night.“Time to go?” He asks with a cocked eyebrow.Pasting a small smile on her face, she nods.“Yes please.”Taking her bag from her, he heads to the passenger side and pulls the door open.“Your carriage awaits,” He says with an easy smile, eliciting a genuine smile out of her.Raven walks behind him, getting in the seat.“Thank you.”He shuts the door gently and rounds to the other side of the car getting in smoothly.She watches all this with a tired smile.Raven has never known Royce to be playful or anything other than uptight, but he seems to be in a good mood now.She glances out of the window as he pulls out of the parking lot and joins the main traffic en route to her
The video starts playing, showing herself as she recalls, working on the solution, the professor coming in and seconds later she leaves the lab, then almost immediately, the man moves towards the experiment, filtering it.Her eyes are trained on the screen tracing after his figure as he grabs the wolfsbane extract. The professor takes a glance at the door before putting it in another container as opposed to putting in the trash as he’s supposed to and she frowns.Why is he keeping it?Bile rises to her throat and her frown deepens, disappointment gripping her heart for him as she sees him holding the conical flask of the filtrate under the tap.He did add water to it. Her heart breaks and she can not believe her eyes.Her hard work, all her time and sweat spent in the lab, only for him to ruin it in a second Not only that, she remembers the way he had snapped at her and called her incompetent. He had reduced her value to nothing, making her feel incapable, over something he had done?
Moving swiftly, Raven snatches the drive from the computer, unplugging it since she does not have enough time to shut it down.He’s in Linda's office, and it’s only a matter of time until he reaches her, with only a door between them. Her heart pounds in her chest as she ducks under the desk, her grip tight on the drive.The other scent is strangely familiar but she can't place it. Who could he be meeting so late?It was out of working hours, so whoever it is could not be a staff member but she feels as though she knows that person; she just can't remember who the scent belongs to and then a female laugh rings out, and she recognizes that laugh immediately.It’s Claire!Claire had always acted like a bitch to her and she could not imagine her laughing genuinely. But… What is she doing here with the professor, this late and laughing too? The professor isn’t one to be so humorous to his students.The answer to her questions comes very quickly as the sound of lips smacking resounds throu
What could have prompted the man to do such a thing, add water to her experiment after the filtration? The question itself seems absurd to her. He has been very on edge about her completing the experiment,why would he add water and ruin the whole thing?It hardly makes sense but if it wasn't the professor, then who was it?She needs to figure it out.Her eyes search around the room for any clues that could help. She stops mid step as she catches the blinking light of a camera at the corner of the room.Yes!How could she have forgotten?There are cameras in the lab. If only she can get access to the footage from the other day, she will easily find out who tampered with her experiment and maybe, she can.She bites her lip in thought, an idea already formulating in her mind.The professor has direct access to the cameras from a computer in his main office. Getting in is not an issue, but there is just one thing stopping her from going right now, Linda.Like her, she knows the professor'