Page 74 of Into The Darkness

“Please, no,” I whispered as his hands landed on my shoulder, pushing me down so I was kneeling on the floor.

“Dr. Connolly, I didn’t think this was what you meant when you asked me to do whatever. I just assumed you meant extra assignments and whatnot. I don’t think—”

“Your little boyfriend isn’t here to save you now, is he, Ember?” I shook my head as his grip tightened on the back of my neck.

“I see how you have been looking at me all semester with your pouty mouth. I have watched your tongue roll around your lower lip, and all I could do was think about how sweet it would look when you were sucking my dick.” His free hand unzipped his pants, and tears formed in my eyes.

Please don’t crywas all I could say to myself. If I could survive Ale, I could find a way out of this. I darted my eyes toward the exits, looking for any sort of emergency break. There was absolutely nothing but the unnerving sounds of Dr. Connolly fumbling with his pants.

I was going to fight him with words, knowing his strength would quickly overpower me.

“Y-you don’t want t-to do this,” I said, trying to choke down my shaking voice. I was not the little Ember I once was. I was strong and had been through so much shit in such a short amount of time.

“Oh, but that is where you are wrong, I do want to do this.”

“You know there are cameras in this classroom. Anyone can look and see what happened here, Dr. Connolly.” I had no fucking clue if there were actual cameras, but I assumed there were since we were on school property.

“You wouldn’t dare tell anyone. You are far too innocent.”

“Am I, now?” I asked.

“Yes. You would never risk your future career.” He would be right had he been talking to the Ember Solis from six months ago. Today, I had no idea what career I could even have as a daughter of a mob boss. Today, my entire life was written with a new narrative, which included standing up for myself.

“That is where you are wrong, Dr. Connolly. My dignity is far larger than whatever box my career will put me in.” I brought my free hand up to his cock and gripped him. He was laughing as though he thought he had won over my inner battle.

Boy was he fucking wrong. Then I squeezed his shaft with all my force.

“Fuck, Ember.” I kept squeezing, but he pulled my head closer to the tip of his cock.

“Now, sweet Ember. Show me what you do when you are all—”

I bit down on the head, forcing my teeth through him. He screamed and let me go, then I crashed to the floor.

“Professor Connolly.” A booming voice shot through the class, and I turned around.

“Ash . . .” I really wanted to keep the recommendation, which seemed so stupid to be worrying about, but it was my ticket out of here. Here we went again, but this time it was different. I wasn’t as helpless as I felt last time. I was stronger.

“Back away. Now,” he commanded, closing the distance between us quickly. I pulled away from Dr. Connolly, and Ash wrapped me in a protective hug, shielding me away from this.

I heard a few other footsteps coming from behind, then Rain and Pico came flying down the steps.

“I told you what would happen last year if you decided to try it again. This time you really fucked up because you tried to hurt what ismine.”

“Wh-what happened last year?” I said, looking up at Ash, who was still squeezing me to his chest. Darting my gaze around, I realized Ash held a gun in Dr. Connolly’s direction.

“This fucker tried to rape some girl. We caught him before class one day when I was trying to turn in an assignment early.”

“Is that why you enrolled again?” I asked him, putting the pieces of this together.

“Yeah, when I found out you were going to be in here, I knew I had to enroll. I knew Connolly had private tutoring sessions to his favorite students and through the grapevine heard you were on his list this year.”

“We thought you could control your dick in your pants. You were doing so well, you lasted a whole ass semester, but your perverted self had to come out.” Rain pointed a gun in his direction. Dr. Connolly was speechless, jaw ajar.

“It was consensual. Tell them, Ember?” I narrowed my eyes at him and pulled away from Ash.

“Why the fuck would I do that?” I said, holding up a hand to stop Ash from interjecting.

“Because you want to do everything possible to get ahead, right?” That sly bastard was still trying to use this against me even though I had told him mere moments ago I would rather keep my dignity intact than manage his bullshit.

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