One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

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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."

strode toward the bar on stiff legs, my eyes

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

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

about this

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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 he had returned, full force, a flurry of angst and fear

"Go!"

need to tell me

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 began running, running faster than I'd ever moved in

"Audrey!"

Audrey's POV

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

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

she was gone. Running from the scene of the

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

death once I hit the surface of that water. The impact of my

like me could

had been haunting me all night, spoke

are not a

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

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

peaceful, 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 eternity. But it would be

without him.

thought of him, I felt a tug against

Edwin.

to see him one last time, to feel 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 consciousness ached and that black- void began closing in around me as if

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thread. Lfollowed it because my life, my heart, depended

I was

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that scent of smoke and something uniquely him. And then the thread grew