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."

said nothing more. I strode toward the bar on stiff legs, my eyes scanning the room, my

picked up that scent. And I could smell it now on the air, but it had...

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

gone. Something about this wasn't right,

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

"Go!"

need to tell me

looks and murmurs, and I howled her name into the air as I began running, running faster than I'd ever moved

"Audrey!"

Audrey's POV

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

I saw before I went over the edge of that

gone. Running from the scene

through my hair, my dress

would meet 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

like me could never survive

that had been haunting

you are

instant, I had hit the water and was sinking beneath the surface. Pain screamed through my body, and the world was lost in

feeling of... nothing. Just a single consciousness

empty sort of way. If this was what death was like, then... Maybe it

without him. Without

I thought of him, I felt a tug against my heart-like an invisible

Edwin.

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

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it because my life, my heart,

don't know how long I was dead. Seconds, minutes...

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uniquely him. And then the thread grew thicker and

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