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 **rse. "What

his face. "You're awake.

"Why

as he swallowed. He didn't answer me

away.

"Edwin..." I warned.

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 up, my muscles screaming from days of sitting upright in a chair with no rest. "Why? What are you talking

my father last night. He... he gave me an ultimatum. Either

gut. "What?" I sat up fully now, even though my back ached immensely.

the slightest bit. "But I've decided that the

had nothing

head, struggling to process this information. "No, I don't want to go. I want

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

chest. I struggled to stand on shaking legs. "I

words pained him and he was

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at that. I stormed up to him with what little strength 1 had and ripped

tensed, jaw clenching,

chest. "You promised you wouldn't treat me this way. That I could make

felt like an eternity, Edwin's face was ashen as he quietly said, "I know I promised,

"There's always a choice."

my things. "The

feeling betrayed and furious. "I can't believe you're doing

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

away? Taking away my right to choose my own fate?" I shook my head, tears stinging my eyes. "Some mate you

care. Turning on my