My Professor Is My Alpha Mate

Lila's POV

"What's going on?" I asked as Brody quickly pulled away from me

I recognized the sound of Rachel's piercing scream right away. I had never heard her sound like this before, but I knew it was her.

The sound made its way through the hospital, bouncing off the walls and sending chills down everyone's spine. My heart fell into my stomach as I imagined what could possibly be wrong.

Then, she said words that felt like a knife to my stomach.

“Ryan!!! You can't be dead!!!” She screamed and sobbed.

The hospital nurses and doctors were holding her back, pulling her out of the room. Brody had the curtain of my section open, and I could see them physically pulling her away. She fought them every step of the way though.

It broke my heart to see her like this.

My only hope was that she was just so distraught that she didn't know what she was talking about. Perhaps she was still a little drunk.

My eyes found Enzo's and they locked for a moment. My breathing got caught in my throat and I had trouble looking away. But it only lasted a moment; he was the first to pull his gaze away from mine and I nearly fell backward onto the bed when he did.

I realized he probably saw Brody in my section, and I wondered if it bothered him.

Then I remembered how cruel he was to me earlier and brushed the thought out of my mind.

"Get the IVs out of my wrist,” I told Brody who looked at me with confusion crossing his face. “I need to get to Rachel,” I tell him urgently. “Get these out of my wrist.”

"Yeah, but they won't allow visitors right now. At least not until she’s awake and calm,” she answered. “I would just give her some time, Lila...”

I knew Becca was right. If there was one thing that Rachel loved more than herself, it was Ryan. They were together from before I got to this school, and she was so in love with him. They didn't start officially dating until recently though, despite her strong feelings towards him.

Rachel was only 17, so she wasn't able to sense or find her mate yet. But she was so sure that Ryan was the one the moon goddess had chosen for her.

I wanted that to be true for her.

Sometimes Ryan was an airhead, but he was really good to her, and he seemed to love her a lot. I was almost envious of their relationship because it was nothing like what I had with Scott. Ryan might have been a good form of Scott, but he was certainly more gentlemanly than Scott has ever been.

"We should get back to campus, so the hospital isn't clustered,” Brody suggested.

I knew he was right; the hospital staff was probably so overwhelmed with everything going on. There wasn't anything we could do for either Rachel or Ryan at that moment.

As we were leaving, I saw a glimpse of Enzo from across the halls, speaking to a doctor just outside of Ryan's door. I paused for a moment, wondering what he was talking to the doctor about.

Brody and Becca also paused when they saw I wasn't walking with them.

"Lila?" Becca asked. “Are you coming?”

“You two go ahead,” I tell them as I start walking towards Enzo.

I could feel their eyes on the back of my head for a moment longer before they finally turned and left without me.

Enzo noticed me walking toward him right away and he quickly finished his conversation with the doctor before thanking him and meeting me the rest of the way.

“Ryan is in a coma, but they think he has a chance of making a recovery,” Enzo informed me.

I let out a breath of relief at his words.

That was great news.

“They won't know just yet though. For right now he’s stable and they are keeping him monitored,” Enzo continued. “There's nothing for you to do right now though. You should go get some rest.” “What about you?” I found myself asking.

“I'm going to stick around here just in case something happens. I'd rather be on the scene than hear about things later.”

I frowned at him.

“I'll stay too,” I told him. “And I won't argue about it.”

I turned away and walked toward one of the empty seats across the hall and sat down. He stared at me for a long while before sighing and coming to sit beside me.

We sat silently for a moment before I swallowed my pride and looked up at him.

"Did you mean it?" I found myself asking him. He raised his brows and met my eyes. "Did you mean what you said earlier? That you'd be ashamed to have me as a mate...?"