My Professor Is My Alpha Mate (Lila) novel Chapter 60

Lila’s POV

I dropped the can of beer from the ground, watching it spread across the hardwood floors. My mind was whirling as the smoke began to fill the living room. I saw the smoke before I saw the flames, and then the explosion came last.

I wasn’t sure I could stand up from the couch without falling over, but Brody was on his feet quickly, pulling me up with him.

The screaming pierced my ears from those who were caught in the explosion.

My heart was racing quickly against my chest; Brody kept his hold around my waist and was shuffling me toward the door.

“I need to get Rachel and Becca…” My words came out as a hoarse whisper, and I thought he didn’t hear me.

But he glanced down at me and narrowed his eyes.

“I need to get you to safety,” he told me firmly.

I shook my head; tears filling my eyes as I shoved him away from me.

“I need to get my friends,” I said louder, surprising him.

I took off toward the flames before he could say or do anything.

If I knew one thing about Volana’s is that we were incredibly hard to kill. Blaise had tried to kill my mother numerous times and she came back stronger than ever.

I wasn’t going to let fire be the one thing that took me out.

There was another explosion and that knocked me to the ground.

It was incredibly hard to breathe with how much smoke was invading my lungs, but I pushed through. I covered my mouth with my arms and kept making my way into the kitchen.

That the last time I saw Rachel, she was standing near the kitchen door with Ryan, and I feared she was caught in the explosion.

I stumbled across a couple of bodies; students that were caught in the explosion.

My stomach knotted.

I couldn’t tell if they were alive or dead.

“Rachel?!” I yelled into the loud flames of fire. “Becca?!”

After a moment of what felt like hopeless waiting, I heard my name.

“Lila!!”

It was Rachel.

I followed the sound of my name until I found her pressed against the corner of the kitchen. Her face was covered in soot and blood and her hair was matted around her head. Her clothing was torn to shreds as she struggled to free her foot from the fridge that had fallen from her.

“I can’t move…” she cried; tears mixing with the soot and blood, staining her features.

“Hold on,” I said, trying to keep the horror I was feeling out of my voice.

I grabbed the fridge and used my entire strength to lift it enough so she could get her foot free.

She screamed in pain as she slid herself out from under the fridge.

“I think it’s broken,” she cried, pointing at her foot.

Her entire foot was swollen and twisted in a direction that shouldn’t be twisted. I couldn’t help but grimace.

“It’s going to be okay,” I assured her. “Just grab onto me and I’ll get you out of here.”

She wrapped her arm around me, and I managed to lift her off the ground. Rachel weighed practically nothing, so it was easy to lift her and carry her through the smoked engulfed house.

“I don’t know where Ryan is…” she cried. “He was with me one minute and disappeared after the explosion.”

My heart fell into my stomach; oh goddess. I hoped he was okay.

“Lila!” I heard Brody say as he fought his way into the fire and through the smoke.

He looked like he was about to pass out at any moment; the smoke would be too much for him and I worried he couldn’t handle it like a Volana wolf could.

“Brody, you need to get out of here,” I ordered him.

“Not without you!” He coughed, but even as he said that he grew wobbly, and I thought he was going to fall.

I shoved Rachel into Brody’s arms.

“Get her out of here,” I ordered.

“What about you?” He asked as I turned back toward the kitchen.

“I need to find Ryan and Becca.”

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Enzo’s POV

Students ran from the burning house, pure horror on their faces.