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.

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

little girl’s hopeful face at the gala flashed through my mind-the way she

I had lied. To protect

had been worth the cost. If giving her

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

words were like a punch to the gut. The shame I had been trying to suppress bubbled to the surface,

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my throat. “At the gala… I lied. I hadn’t shifted yet. I was afraid, and I

fell, the hope that had briefly flared in their eyes

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some of the damage, “I have shifted now. And I

flickering across their faces. Then Ivy’s father slowly nodded,

Ivy’s father whispered.

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though my heart raced. This was different from before. This was real. I couldn’t make any

this moment forward, I will never lie to

standing in the doorway, sent a thread of approval down the

stepped closer to Ivy, my knees almost buckling underneath me. I was exhausted, so exhausted that I

skin was cold

reaching deep inside 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

it-could sense the cancer in her body like a dark, insidious force clinging to

cancer was a stubborn thing,

strain making my body tremble. But I couldn’t stop. I wouldn’t stop. Slowly, agonizingly, I felt the cancer begin to give way, dissolving under the relentless force of

drawn, was now brighter, her eyes clearer

Star,” she whispered. “You

stepped back, feeling light-headed, my body drained of energy. It was only then that I realized

he whispered, giving me a

alive

Empty.

were so many other children-so many others suffering, their faces etched with the same pain that Ivy had endured.

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to help them all,” I