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.

shook 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 a

memory of that little girl’s hopeful face at the gala flashed through my mind-the way she had looked up at me with so much trust, asking

had lied. To protect myself. To

here like this, I wondered if it had been worth the cost. If giving her false hope

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

punch to the gut. The shame I had been trying to suppress

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in my throat. “At the gala… I lied. I hadn’t shifted yet. I was afraid, and I said what I thought would protect me. I’m so sorry. I should have told the

that had briefly flared in their eyes extinguished in an instant. I thought

14%

damage, “I have shifted now. And I can help Ivy-if you’ll

moment, they just stared at me, uncertainty and pain flickering across their faces. Then

father whispered.

+5

steadying myself, even though my heart raced. This was different from before. This was real. I couldn’t

“from this moment forward, I will never lie to you again. No matter the

silently standing in the doorway, sent a

buckling underneath me. I was exhausted, so exhausted that I wasn’t

I placed my hand. on her forehead. Her skin was cold to the touch, clammy beneath

closed my eyes, reaching deep inside of myself for the silver energy that had become a part of me in

coursed through me, flowing into Ivy, and I could feel it-could sense the cancer in her body like a dark, insidious force clinging to

wasn’t like healing Peter’s silver poisoning. This was different-harder. The cancer was a stubborn thing, deeply rooted

strength, pushing deeper. Sweat beaded on my forehead, the 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

now brighter, her eyes clearer than I had ever

she whispered. “You

drained of energy. It was only then that I

he whispered, giving me a gentle tug.

Ivy, alive and smiling,

Empty.

others suffering, their faces etched with the same pain

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to help them all,” I said,