One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

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."

bar on stiff legs, my eyes scanning the room, my nostrils

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 laced with something else. Something concerning.

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

Something about

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

"Go!"

didn't need to

out of the front doors, ignoring the confused looks and murmurs, and I howled

"Audrey!"

Audrey's POV

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

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

she was gone. Running from the

moments as I fell. The wind whipped through my hair,

The impact of my body meeting the river would result in a broken neck, shattered spine, fractured

A human like me could never survive such a

haunting me all night, spoke

are not a

What was too slow before was now all too quick. Within an instant, I had hit the water and was sinking beneath the surface.

black darkness and a feeling of... nothing. Just a single consciousness floating

of way. If this was what death was like, then... Maybe it wasn't so bad. I could

without him. Without

I thought of him, I felt a tug against my

Edwin.

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

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clung to that thread. Lfollowed it

don't know how long I was dead.

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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