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."

me a loaded glance, as if she could sense my discomfort, but said nothing 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...

intoxicating, drawing me to her 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

didn't know how I knew, but I knew. If I didn't move quickly,

was gone. Something about this

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to curling up within himself as if he had been burned. But now he had returned, full force, a flurry of angst and

"Go!"

didn't need to

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

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

Running from

through my hair, my dress billowing around me. Too long it took far

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

like me

had been haunting me all night, spoke in

are not

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

was darkness. Inky black darkness and a feeling of...

was what death was like, then... Maybe it

him. Without

I thought of him, I felt a tug against my heart-like an invisible

Edwin.

that thread, that scent, through a watery haze, my movements slow and painful. My ethereal consciousness ached and that black- void began

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that thread. Lfollowed it because my life, my

how long I was dead.

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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 shapeless lungs like fresh