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."

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

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.

me. I didn't know how I knew, but I knew.

about this wasn't

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Audrey had rejected me earlier, going from roiling in rage inside of me to curling up within himself as if he had been burned. But

"Go!"

to

murmurs, and I howled her name into the

"Audrey!"

Audrey's POV

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

went over the edge of that

was gone. Running

my hair, my dress billowing around me. Too long

a horrifying death once I hit the surface of that water. The impact of my body meeting the river would result in a broken neck, shattered spine,

me

voice, the one that had been haunting

you are

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

feeling of... nothing. Just a

what death was like, then... Maybe it wasn't so bad. I could float like this for

without him. Without

tug against my

Edwin.

see him one last time, to feel him once more before that 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

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that thread. Lfollowed it because my life, my heart, depended

know how long I was dead. Seconds, minutes... Maybe

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And then the thread grew thicker and became a rope

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