**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 a quiet click and didn’t bother sitting behind his desk. Instead he leaned against the front of it, arms loosely folded, and looked at me like we both already knew
