One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 144

Chapter

144

Edwin & Audrey

Edwin's POV

"Congratulations, Alpha Edwin. This is joyous news."

"When is the wedding?"

"You and Fiona make a lovely couple.

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My food sat in front of me, untouched. My stomach felt too leaden to eat so much as a bite, and it was all I could do to offer polite smiles or single-word answers in response to all of the curious guests and well- wishers.

This wasn't what I wanted. Marrying Fiona. It felt like a prison sentence.

But she had announced our engagement anyway, without consulting me, and I was too much of a bl**dy coward to stop her. Fear had gripped me in those moments she'd made the announcement, fear that if I didn't comply

That if I didn't comply, the love of my life would be in danger.

My eyes scanned the room in search of Audrey. Where was she? I noticed her seat was empty, the napkin crumpled on the plate. She must have left at some point.

But then I realized that Fiona, who had said she was going to get another drink at the bar, was also missing.

A cold dread settled in my stomach at that moment. Something wasn't right.

1 stood abruptly, my chair scraping loudly against the floor. Nearby guests looked at me curiously, their conversations faltering.

"Edwin? Is everything alright?" Claudia asked, toying with the silk scarf that Audrey had given her.

"Yes," I said curtly, even though that couldn't have been further from the truth. "Just... going to get another drink from the

bar."

if she could sense my discomfort, but said nothing more. I strode toward the bar on stiff legs, my eyes scanning the room, my nostrils flaring as I

was unlike anything I had ever experienced before. It was intoxicating, drawing me to her earlier despite the risk. I had been physically incapable of staying away from her when I had picked up that scent. And I could smell it now on the air, but it had... changed. What was once a pleasant, floral scent was now

that she needed me. I didn't know how I knew, but I knew.

was gone. Something about

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me to curling up within himself as if he had been burned. But now he had

"Go!"

didn't need to tell

the front doors, ignoring the confused looks and murmurs, and

"Audrey!"

Audrey's POV

above me as I fell, grasping at nothing. Nothing but the moon and stars, too far away for me to reach, too

edge of that railing. I saw her slender hands

she was gone. Running from the scene of

hair, my dress billowing

the surface of that water. The impact of my body meeting the river would result in a broken neck, shattered

human like me could never survive such

that had been haunting

you are not

I heard before time returned in its usual rush. What was too slow before was now all too quick. Within an instant, I had hit the water

there was darkness. Inky black darkness and a feeling

like, then... Maybe it wasn't so bad. I could float

him. Without

tug against my heart-like an invisible

Edwin.

blackness swallowed me whole. So I followed that thread, that scent, through a watery haze, my movements slow and painful. My ethereal consciousness ached and that black- void began closing in around

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clung to that thread. Lfollowed it because my life, my

how long I was dead. Seconds,

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thread, that scent of smoke and something uniquely him. And then the thread

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