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."

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

picked up that scent. And I could smell it now on

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

about

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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!"

didn't need to

followed that scent like it was a lifeline. I burst out of the front doors, ignoring the confused looks and murmurs,

"Audrey!"

Audrey's POV

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

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

she was gone. Running

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

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

like me could never survive such a

that had been haunting me

you are

now all too quick. Within an instant, I had hit the water and was sinking beneath

feeling of... nothing. Just a single consciousness

of way. If this was what death was like, then... Maybe it wasn't so

him.

tug against my heart-like an invisible

Edwin.

before that blackness swallowed me whole. So I followed that thread, that scent, through a watery haze,

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to that thread. Lfollowed it because my

long I was dead. Seconds, minutes...

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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

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