One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

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."

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

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 now laced

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

Something about this wasn't right,

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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 now

"Go!"

didn't need to tell

that scent like it was a lifeline. I burst out of the front doors, ignoring the confused looks and murmurs, and I howled her name into the air as I

"Audrey!"

Audrey's POV

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 railing. I saw her slender hands gripping the rail, that malicious smirk wrenching her beautiful

then she was gone. Running from

seemed to slow down in those moments as I fell. The wind whipped through my hair, my dress billowing around me. Too long it took far too long to

The impact of my body meeting the river would result in a

like me could never survive such a

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

are not

I had hit

a feeling of... nothing. Just a single consciousness floating through a

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

without him. Without

a tug against my heart-like an

Edwin.

feel him once more before that blackness swallowed me whole. So I followed that thread, that scent, through a watery haze, my movements

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that thread. Lfollowed it because my life, my

long I was dead.

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