My Professor Is My Alpha Mate (Lila) novel Chapter 70

Lila’s POV

I didn’t sleep long when Becca started to call my cell phone. It was almost 10 pm and I was very confused as to why she was calling me so late at night.

I knew something must have been wrong.

“Becca?” I asked, groggily into the phone.

I knew right away that she was crying before she even spoke.

“Something happened,” she said, her words trembling. “Rachel disappeared… but then I found her. She was passed out in the bathroom…”

“What?” I gasped, jumping up from my bed, startling Brianna who had fallen asleep beside me. “What do you mean she passed out? What happened, Becca?”

“She had a needle in her arm,” Becca cried. “She OD’d.”

I needed to get back to Higala and as soon as possible. I must have been making a ton of noise while grabbing my things because my mother came into my room with a worried look in her eyes.

“Lila, where are you going? What’s wrong?”

“I have to go,” I told her quickly. “Something happened in Higala.”

“What is it?” My father asked, running in behind her.

“It’s Rachel. Becca thinks she OD’d. I need to make sure she’s okay.”

“Are you okay to drive back at this hour in this state of mind?” My mother asked in worry.

I realized at that point that I had tears streaming down my face.

“I…I don’t know,” I admitted. “I just know I have to get back.”

My father looked behind him in the darkness of the hallway.

“Enzo, can you take her back in your car?”

My heart fell into my stomach for the second time tonight. Enzo was here too?

Ugh.

This wasn’t happening to me right now.

“Yes, of course,” Enzo said, stepping into the lighting of my room.

His eyes were dark, and he was staring directly at me with narrowed eyes. I felt my breathing getting caught in my throat and my wolf was tugging me toward him. But I stood my ground this time.

“Thanks,” my father said, patting him on the back with his firm hand. He turned back to me. “Keep us updated, Lila Bean.”

I nodded to him, grabbed my suitcase, and followed him out of my room. I didn’t want to discuss anything that had happened between us and the thought of being alone with him in a car for an hour was unsettling, but I needed to get back to Higala and see Rachel.

I felt an overwhelming sense of guilt for leaving in the first place.

“Call us as soon as you get back,” my mother ordered as we reached the front of the packhouse.

“I will,” I assured her, giving her a quick hug before running out of the house and towards Enzo’s waiting car.

I’ll have to come back to get my car at some point. But my mother was right, I wasn’t in any kind of condition to be driving.

Enzo didn’t waste any time in throwing the car in drive and peeling away from the packhouse.

I grabbed my phone and called Becca once we were on the road.

“How is she?” I asked.

“She’s still unconscious,” Becca said; it was clear to me that she’s been crying. I wanted to cry too but I needed to remain strong for her and Rachel. “They are trying everything they can.”