Semua Bab Ava: Bab 191 - Bab 200

“Don’t show the nature of your bond. Stay away until he sends for you. That’s how you’ll protect Zeke.”Those words rang loudly in her ears long after Iulia’s magic had released her, and they'd rushed out of the room. She’d fallen to her knees and was hyperventilating. She couldn’t breathe.She used to think these were panic attacks, but now she could feel it, feel that thing trying to claw out of her. It was her wolf reacting to her emotions.They had Zeke, and she still couldn’t feel him, but she was supposed to act as if they were not connected so completely. Her wolf was not having any of it.She took her tie and blazer off to calm herself and negotiate with her wolf. Her wolf nature wouldn’t solve this problem, not yet. They had to stick to the plan. She lay on her back and practised her breathing but felt like her chest was going to rip open. Could she trust what Andrei and Alpha Diego had told them? That their bond would get them killed? But if she did and something terrible

Everything was so fucked up.Zeke drove Ava home, but he could see by the shell-shocked look on her face that she didn’t even know what was going on. He was still confused. When he’d felt himself fading, he’d thought for sure he was dying, and they were all screwed. And then he’d woken up to realise they were.Ava had been ready to give up at the mere thought that her father would be used against her. And now he was.That bastard had made his declaration, and then they’d all filed into the waiting car and had driven off to the guest houses. He’d had to hold Ava back from following. She looked so lost and broken. He could feel the sense of loss even though her father was still alive and well.And he would stay that way as long as they played ball. Shit.Surely, they had enough information now? It was time to do this, whether they were ready or not.The guards hadn’t stopped them from getting into his car, and the ones outside his house didn’t bat an eyelid when they parked up. Maybe

The sun was still shining, and the guards were still positioning themselves all around them when Ava pulled his head down and kissed him.She had never initiated anything before.But like all the other times, it didn’t matter what was going on around them when his mate touched him; her kiss floored him. He could taste the alcohol on her tongue as she grew bolder with each passing second. And he grew harder.He reluctantly pulled his lips from hers.“There are guards in the woods,” he warned her as he stood and helped her to her feet. This wasn’t supposed to be what they were doing right now, but this could be their last day together. He wasn’t going to deny his mate. At least that pain she’d felt when they’d taken her father was in the background.He had them in the bedroom in record time, then crashed his lips to hers again. Mate bonds were supposed to settle down after a few days, but with Ava, he still lost his head when she touched him. Heat spread through his body as he ripped h

Zeke studied his mate sitting across from him on the grass in the quad.He’d heard trickles of her thoughts the whole morning because she was like a pup who still needed to learn to control her strengths. It would take a while for her to get the hang of her new capabilities and to figure out why Derek and Myles could hear her, too. He hoped to the Goddess that she wasn’t somehow linked to his father because that would suck. He didn’t want anything to do with that asshole after he’d tried to kill Ava. When all this shit was done, he was going home and reclaiming his rightful place one way or another.If they got out of this alive. He’d felt Ava’s pain along with her thoughts, and it was fucking killing him. Should they drop the whole thing?He was no stranger to doing bad things for the good of the pack. He’d been trained to do that before he even shifted. After Shadow arrived, the decisions had been life or death ones. If they chose to trust the councillors and lived to die another

Ava watched how the students at the front started to inch back, aware that her beast was now in control. The stench of their fear aggravated Nyx. Ava didn’t understand that for a moment until she realised that Nyx would not get any joy from attacking defenceless people. Her fear that she would shift and attack everyone at the academy had been unwarranted. Nyx was like her in that aspect; there was no need to fight unless her life was in danger.But the councillors and Head of the Council behind her were a different story. A threat that Nyx wanted to eliminate. A challenge. And her beast apparently lived for these challenges. She could feel her rage build up at these people who had put her in this position.She had refused to submit to anyone all her life, and she’d fought with those who had still tried to force her. It was now clear that Nyx’s ego had been wounded then, and she’d sought revenge. It had been Nyx who had wanted to see those people on their knees, submitting to her. It w