One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 267

Audrey

I jolted awake with a gasp, still tasting the acrid sensation of ash and rubble on my tongue. Only I wasn’t in the collapsing building anymore.

Harsh fluorescent lights glared down at me, making my eyes burn as I squinted against their brightness. My body felt heavy, every inch of me aching as I slowly became aware of my surroundings.

I was in a hospital.

My heart stuttered in my chest as the memories of what had happened began to rush back all at once.

Edwin.

No, no, no. I shouldn’t be here. I should be with-

Panic took hold of me. I tried to sit up, ignoring the sharp pain that suddenly ripped through my abdomen.

“Edwin!” I rasped, looking around wildly. “Where is he? Where

“Shh, sweetheart.” A familiar voice cut through my panic, and a hand pressed gently against my shoulder, pushing me back down onto the bed. “He’s right here. Look to your left.”

My head snapped to the side so fast that the room spun, my vision blurring for a moment before it settled.

And then I saw him.

Edwin was lying in the hospital bed next to mine, his chest rising and falling slowly. His skin was pale, and thick bandages wrapped around his torso, but… he was alive.

He was breathing.

The sight of him sent a rush of relief through me. A sob caught in my throat, tears welling up in my eyes as the memories of the warehouse came crashing down on me. The blood. The knife. The way I had felt him dying through our bond, slipping away right in front of me.

“But… the knife,” I whispered, my voice trembling as I turned to my mother, who was sitting perched on the edge of my bed, her hand still resting on my shoulder. “I felt it. I felt him dying. How is he–how are we both still…”

“Whatever you did in there,” she

beginning to resurface–the warmth of his blood on my hands, the overwhelming surge of wild desperation that came over me, the feeling of wanting to save

strong, still there. “I

“Maybe you saved him during those moments. That act of love…” “But how?” I asked, my gaze drifting back to Edwin’s sleeping

mother admitted, her eyes lingering on my face for a moment before flicking to my hair. “But perhaps… it was something

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about the way she said that made me frown. “What do

mother smiled softly and nodded toward my hair. “Take a

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fingers–and froze. Instead of the black strands with a single silver streak that I had grown so used to, the hair that now slipped through my fingers was pure, brilliant silver,

I

hair. “It’s… beautiful,”

it was once the source of my torment. But now, this… this

a warm kiss to my cheek. “I promise I didn’t bleach

I could speak, a soft groan from the other bed caught our attention. My head snapped back to Edwin just as his eyes fluttered open, that familiar

my chest humming with relief. “I

“Audrey…”

I was suddenly out of the bed my legs buckling beneath me as I stumbled toward him Pain shot through

collapsed onto the edge of his bed, my tears flowing freely as I wrapped my arms around him, burying my face in his neck. “You idiot,” I

hair, and I felt him exhale softly, his breath warm against my temple.

thumb across my cheek. “I should be thanking you,” he said softly. “Your love… I think it gave me the strength to get

been lost in that void, following that invisible thread connecting us. Our bond had saved me then. Maybe it had saved him this

time soft and slow, savoring the feeling of his

open then, and suddenly the

me. Peter was right behind her, his eyes lighting up as he

slapped me across the face–lightly, but just enough to sting a little–before she threw her

that again, you dumb fucking bitch”

eyes widened. “Tina! If you’re sharing a home with me, you’d better watch your tongue.”