One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 240

Audrey

I stepped through the doors of the children’s ward, and the weight of the world settled on my shoulders. The room was quiet except for the soft hum of machines and the occasional murmur of low voices, the lights dim and surprisingly peaceful.

And then I saw her.

At the far end of the room, cradled by her parents’ arms, their faces streaked with tears, was Ivy. The little girl from the charity gala.

She looked so small in that bed, her tiny body dwarfed by the stark white sheets, her face pale and drawn. Her parents sat on either side of her, clinging to each other, grief etched into every line of their faces.

They had clearly been there for hours, days maybe, watching their daughter fade away.

“I-Ivy?” I whispered, taking a hesitant step forward.

Her mother snapped her head up first, her swollen eyes meeting mine across the dimly lit room. There was a moment of recognition-her mouth parted slightly in disbelief, her lips trembling.

“You’re… you’re the Silver Star,” she breathed. “You came…”

Inodded slowly, although I couldn’t bring myself to meet her gaze for long. Shame twisted painfully inside of me like a knife in my chest. I turned my eyes to Ivy, who lay so still, her breath shallow and uneven.

“What happened?” I whispered. The little girl had seemed okay at the gala just a couple of days ago-not healthy, of course, but awake and lucid and able to walk around on her own.

But now… she looked on

the

verge

of death.

Ivy’s father cleared his throat, his voice thick with tears. “After the gala…” he began, his words halting as if he was choking on each one. “She collapsed on the stairs. Hit her head on the way down. Between the blood loss and the cancer…. they don’t think she’ll make it through the night.”

His voice cracked, the last words barely escaping his throat.

“I should have carried her,” he whimpered.

head. “It’s not your fault, honey. She wanted to walk on her own. She was so excited about being cured.” She glanced at

the hot, acrid taste of bile rising in my throat. The memory of that little girl’s hopeful face at the gala flashed

lied. To protect

like this, I wondered if it had been worth the cost. If giving

her eyes wide and pleading. “Can you help her?” she asked softly, her voice

were like a punch to the gut. The shame I had been

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shifted yet. I was afraid, and I said what I thought would protect me. I’m so sorry. I should have told the truth, even if it would have made things

their eyes extinguished in an instant.

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added quickly, desperate to undo some of the damage, “I have

uncertainty and pain flickering across their faces. Then Ivy’s father slowly nodded, and her mother followed suit, clutching her daughter’s

Ivy’s father whispered.

+5

though my heart raced. This was different from

last time, “from this moment forward, I

in the doorway, sent a

almost buckling underneath me. I was exhausted, so exhausted that I wasn’t even sure if I could heal anyone else tonight, but… I had to

hand. on her forehead. Her skin was cold to

of myself for the silver energy that had become a part of me in such a short amount of time. It responded more easily than I thought it would, surging forward like a river

flowing into Ivy, and I could feel it-could sense the cancer in her body like a

wasn’t like healing Peter’s silver poisoning. This was different-harder. The cancer was a

the strain making my body tremble. But I couldn’t stop. I wouldn’t

what felt like hours, Ivy’s eyes fluttered open. Her face, once pale and drawn, was now brighter, her eyes clearer than I had ever seen them. A smile spread across her face, weak but

Star,” she whispered. “You

drained of energy. It was

me

Ivy, alive and smiling, just made me

Empty.

with the same pain that Ivy had endured. I couldn’t just heal

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have to help them all,”