One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 196 Audrey

Silver arrows rained down from a dark sky. Straight toward my mother, laying in her hospital bed, ho**d up to countless tubes and machines. "No!"

I ran to my mother's sleeping form and threw myself over her just moments before the first arrow hit, shielding her from the shower. I made it just in time; though the arrows pierced my back, blinding pain shooting through my body, she was safe. Protected.

Or so I thought.

When the arrows finally stopped coming, I pulled back, arms still wrapped around her.

"Mom-

I felt my stomach sink. My mother.... She was choking on my blood.

Liquid silver had seeped out of my wounds, pooling around her, soaking into the hospital sheets. As if it had a life of its own, it rose up and slipped into her mouth, her nose, her eyes, crept up her arms and legs and across her torso until she was completely covered.

Then, it covered me, too.

I didn't scream. Although I didn't know if that was because of the silver quickening in my lungs, or because I had lost the will to fight back.

I jerked awake with a gasp, my heart pounding in my chest. For a moment, I was disoriented, the nightmare still clinging to the edges of my consciousness. But then I realized I was in bed, in Edwin's apartment. How had I gotten here?

Last night's memories slowly began to fade back in, clouded as they were-Edwin carrying me out of the hospital, changing my clothes like a child, feeding me. It was all such a blur, I had been so fogged by three sleepless nights.

But I had slept through last night, it seemed, seeing as how the sun's light was just barely beginning to peek over the h**n.

As my eyes adjusted to the dim light of dawn, I saw Edwin moving around the room, pulling clothes out of drawers and shoving them into a duffel bag.

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My clothes.

I croaked, my voice

face. "You're awake.

question. "Why are you

tightened, his throat bobbing as he swallowed. He didn't answer me

away.

"Edwin..." I warned.

and Charles are going to take you to my summer cottage for a while," he finally said, turning away to stuff another sweater into my bag. "Until this whole situation blows over." "What?" I struggled to sit

my father last night.

felt like a knife in my gut. "What?" I sat up fully now, even though my back ached immensely. "You're breaking up with

of my coiled muscles relax-but only the slightest bit. "But I've decided that the best course of action is to make it appear as if we've broken up. You'll go to the cottage, somewhere safe and our

Claudia had nothing

go. I want to stay here, with you and my friends and... and my mother. I have school to

classes online," Edwin replied. "I'm sorry, Audrey, but it's the only way to keep

how long?" I demanded, panic rising in my chest. I struggled to stand on shaking legs.

as if the words pained him and he was trying to quell his own anguish. "You have to get out of here. I won't take no

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through me at that. I stormed up to him with what little strength 1 had and ripped the bag from his unsuspecting hands, throwing it on the floor. Sweaters and jeans and books went sc**ng across

tensed, jaw clenching,

promised you

was ashen as he quietly said, "I know I promised, and I know

"There's always a choice."

picking up my things. "The car is already waiting. Peter and Charles will

betrayed and

"I'm doing this because I love you, Audrey. I can't let

away my right to choose my own fate?" I shook my head,

but I was too angry to care. Turning on my heel, I yanked a pair of jeans and a hoodie out of my