One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 144

Chapter

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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 nostrils flaring as

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.

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

about this

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

"Go!"

need to

front doors, ignoring the confused looks and murmurs, and I howled her name

"Audrey!"

Audrey's POV

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

the last thing I saw before I went over the edge of that railing. I saw her slender hands gripping the rail, that malicious

then she was gone. Running from the scene of

as I fell. The wind whipped through my hair, my dress billowing around

knew I would meet a horrifying death once I hit the surface of that water. The impact

A human like me could never survive such

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

you are

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

black darkness and a feeling of... nothing. Just a

an empty sort of way. If this was what death was like, then... Maybe it wasn't so

him.

I felt a tug against my

Edwin.

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

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it

long I was

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was lost in that void, following that thread, that scent of smoke and something uniquely him. And then the thread grew thicker and became a rope for me to hold onto, and that

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