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."

bar on stiff legs, my eyes scanning the room, my nostrils flaring as I followed that faint scent. That perfume... Audrey had smelled so sweet tonight,

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

know how I

about this wasn't

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curling up within himself as if he

"Go!"

didn't need to tell me

like it was a lifeline. I burst out of the front doors, ignoring the confused looks and murmurs,

"Audrey!"

Audrey's POV

at nothing. Nothing but the moon and stars, too far away for me to reach, too far away to

twisted face was the last thing I saw before I went over the edge of that railing. I saw

she was gone. Running from

slow down in those moments as I fell. The wind whipped through my hair, my

death once I hit the surface of that water. The impact of my body meeting the river would result

me could never survive such

that voice, the one that had been haunting me all night, spoke in my mind

you are not a

returned in its usual rush. What was too slow before was now all too quick. Within an instant, I had hit the water and was sinking beneath the surface. Pain screamed through my body, and the world was lost in a blur of lights and

there was darkness. Inky black darkness and a feeling of... nothing. Just a single

was like, then...

without him.

felt a tug against my

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 me as if not wanting

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to that thread. Lfollowed it because

long I was dead. Seconds,

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then the thread grew thicker and became a rope for me to hold onto, and that

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