Chapter 87
Zeke didn’t know how it happened.
One second he was in pure ecstasy for the second time that morning, and the next, he had the asshole jared by his neck on the floor, about to use all his strength to try to snuff his useless life out
Jared’s scent in the same room as Ava’s messed him up. Shadow took control, and his claws extended as they gripped Jared’s neck. He could smell the blood, and that made Shadow’s bloodlust unmanageable. There was nothing he could do to stop what was coming.
He wanted Jared in pieces. He wanted to snap his neck and rip his carcass to shreds
But Ava was screaming, distracting him from satisfying his needs. Her tear clogged his nostrils, 10 much of it that it was enough to make him move his focus from the wolf he had pinned down to his terrified human. But Ava wasn’t running away from him as she made all that nolie; she was running towards him.
And then she slid in between his body and Jared’s, trying to use her meagre weight to push him off and prize his fingers from Jared neck. She put her little fragile human body between two Alpha wolves.
His vision cleared once he understood what she was doing. She was saving the bastard’s life. The bastard who’d almost had her killed.
“No! Zeke, please let him go, Ava screamed.
Her heart was racing, and her fear had increased.
“Move, Ava” he commanded
“You can’t do that to him. Please, she pleaded. “Please release him, he can’t breathe.”
And then she turned her head to face him. Tears filled her eyes, and they weakened him sapped the strength and rage from his body as if they hadn’t existed. Shadow retreated, unable to handle the tears now falling down her face. What the fuck was this?
“Please,” she whispered. “I can’t be responsible for anything else. I just can’t—”
He couldn’t handle the tears, either.
He relaxed his fingers without breaking eye contact with Ava and heard the bastard underneath them draw in a harsh breath. Then Ava’s attention was back on Jared as she quickly moved his hand and pushed him off.
“Are you okay?” Ava asked Jared as she moved off him and helped him sit up.
She helped him. She helped his enemy. If she were anyone else, she would have been dead, 100.
“Are you fucking kidding me right now?” he growled.
“you can’t just go around attacking people,” Ava snapped at him without looking away from Jared.
She had her hands on that bastard as she tried to inspect the damage on his neck. She was touching him, Jared noticed his murderous gaze and pushed Ava’s hands away before quickly rising to his feet. The coward backed away, his gaze going from Ava to him.
“Jared is still going to die by my hand, Ava. Maybe not today, but soon.”
That got Ava’s attention. She whirled around to face him. The tears were gone from her face, but there were so many questions in her eyes. After her little display, he was sure his linde human would be disgusted by his future plans for Jared and his pack. This was something that he would never back down from, and she would know it herself soon. After he marked her. After there was no chance in hell that she would get away from him.
“Go and take a shower. I think you need to cool down,” Ava hissed.
He reeled back a hule.
“You can’t tell me what to do. You’re an Omega,” he growled.
And that looked like the wrong thing to say because the fire blazed instantly in her eyes as the stepped towards him. He could feel her anger as if she was slapping him upside his head with it.
“And what? That makes you better than ine, Master Michelon? That makes the stupid things that come out of your mouth more importam than anything I say
He reeled back again. What the fuck was happening heret
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Chapter 87
“You implied it!” Ava shouted. “I don’t know why I keep forgetting how messed up everyone here is, I’m nothing here, but I still have like you decide my future.”
“You know what? You stay here and do whatever you want.”
And then she turned away from him and marched out of the training room. What the hell? How had things gone so wrong?
Jared slanked out of the room after her, but he didn’t go after him. Ava had been right to stop him from killing that prick, but
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A minute ago, she had been moaning underneath him. She had been as lost in the pull of their bond as he had been. She had been rearly. Now, somehow, she was so angry that he probably wouldn’t get a chance to touch her again anytime soon,
Shadow whined in his head, also unsure about what the hell had just happened. There were none of his usual snarky comebacks as they stood in the middle of the training room
It was almost lesson time when he finally went to shower and change. He walked past Ava’s locker room hur sensed she had already left. He couldn’t blame her for wandering off alone because he hadn’t told her yet that Claire had been found. It was pointless to worry her when he didn’t know what punishment Claire had been given for her stupid disappearing act
“Where’s Aval” Derek asked the moment he stepped out of the training centre.
He shook his head as his nose picked up her scent, heading towards the First–Year block
“Humans are so confusing,” he said instead of answering the question.
“Are you sure she’s human?” Myles asked.
His Gamma was leaning against the rails outside the centre, hands in his pockets.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” he asked.
“She’s been pretty messed up a few times, and the last time the healed in the same time it took you to heal. She survived the forest. She was practically comatose because you were in pain, and she took us all down with her with all her emotions. And she was drawn to you when we couldn’t sense you at all. I’ve never seen any humans do that,” Myles shrugged as he pushed himself off and came to stand with them.
“It’s the bond,” he explained. It’s. I can’t even explain how it feels”
-Well, whatever it is, you need to figure it out before your dad finds out about it and does something to stop it,” Myles said. “She’s going to bring all of us down, Zeke. Then how the hell will we get our revenge?”
He turned to his friend with a frown.
“Nothing is going to stop that from happening,” he promised. “And nothing is going to take Ava away from me. You have a problem with this, and rightly so, but if I can’t trust you with Ava, you need to tell me now. I have enough to worry about”
“Of course you can trust me.” Myles said. “But can we trust you to think of the good of the pack! We haven’t even done anything about the vampires, and we’re almost out of time.”
With the mate his father had chosen for him, he would have been able to answer that easily. With Ava, his true mate, it seemed her welfare came
“Of course, you can trust me,” he said as he started walking toward his lessons. “I’ll speak to the Alpha about the vampires, don’t worry about that.”
He couldn’t help feeling guilty because that was all a load of bullshit. His only focus right now was marking Ava as soon as he could, so that would make him a chat Alpha when the time came
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