One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 144

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...

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

that she needed me. I didn't know how I

was gone. 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

"Go!"

need to tell me

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

"Audrey!"

Audrey's POV

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

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 scene

my hair, my dress billowing around me. Too long it took far too long to reach the

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

helpless. A human like me

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

you are not

instant, I had hit the water and was sinking beneath the surface. Pain screamed through my body,

feeling of... nothing. Just a single consciousness

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

him. Without

tug against my heart-like an invisible thread. And

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-

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

don't know how long I was

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him. And then the thread grew thicker and became a

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