**Teacher’s Dirty Secret**

Chapter 27

MISS RAE'S POV

It was sometime in the afternoon the next day, I almost made it to the stairs.

“Miss Rae.”

Principal Harlan’s voice stopped me cold. I turned, already putting on the polite, slightly distant face I used with administration. He stood outside his office in a charcoal suit that fit too well for a man who spent most of his day behind a desk. His eyes did the slow inventory they had started doing since September—skirt, legs, the open collar of my blouse—before finally rising to my face.

“Principal.”

“A moment of your time.”

I followed him inside. He closed the door with...