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."

the bar on stiff legs, my eyes scanning the room, my nostrils flaring as I followed that faint scent.

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

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

gone. Something about this

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had been quiet-since 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!"

didn't need to tell

burst out of the front doors, ignoring the confused looks and murmurs, and I howled her name into

"Audrey!"

Audrey's POV

hands stretched out above me as I fell, grasping at nothing. Nothing but the moon and stars,

over the edge of that railing. I saw her slender

gone. Running

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

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

human like me could never

been haunting me all night, spoke

you are not a

Within an instant, I had hit the

feeling of... nothing. Just

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

him.

I felt a tug against my heart-like an invisible

Edwin.

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 black- void

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that thread. Lfollowed it

long I was

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knew was that one moment I 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 scent filled my senses, filled my

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