All Chapters of The Alpha’s Puck Bunny: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

AvaDear Moon Goddess,I made the hockey practice squad.Technically, I made a two-week trial, but we’re celebrating the important part.Unfortunately, I may never walk normally again.Everything hurts.Did You know there are muscles underneath your butt?I didn’t.Also, Jace picked me up and spun me around when Coach told me. It was disgustingly cute, and I am never telling him I wrote that.There’s just one problem.People already think I spent years hanging around hockey because I wanted Jace. Now I’m his mate and suddenly I’m practicing with his team.I earned that tryout.I know I did.But sometimes knowing something and not caring what everyone else thinks are two very different things.I don’t want to be Jace Walker’s Puck Bunny.I want to be Ava Peters.I want people to understand there’s a difference.Love,AvaBy lunch, Blackwood had apparently decided there wasn’t.“Guess Puck Bunny finally got full access to the team.”I stopped outside the cafeteria.Sara groaned. “Keep w

AvaMy wolf remembered my uncle.That sentence shouldn’t have made sense.Then again, very little about my life made sense anymore.Dad had moved us back inside after Mrs. Whitmore escaped into the woods. Security teams were searching the grounds, Coach Reynolds was being treated for wolfsbane exposure, and I was sitting on the couch in Dad’s office with Jace so close our thighs touched.Nobody seemed particularly interested in giving me space.Normally, I would’ve complained.Right now, I didn’t want Jace moving an inch.“Tell me exactly what you saw,” Dad said.I rubbed my temples. “Caleb. I think.”“You’ve never seen him.”“My wolf has.”Dad stopped pacing.“She showed me a man who looked like you. Younger. Dark hair. He was touching Mom’s stomach.”Mom sat beside Dad’s desk, pale but composed. “Caleb used to do that.”I looked at her.“He talked to you?”A tiny smile appeared.“Constantly. He was convinced you knew his voice. He’d put his hand on my stomach and tell you that your

JacePuck Bunny.I used to say it because I knew it pissed her off.That was probably the worst part.Ava had been this quiet girl who sat at hockey games, always somewhere in the stands with a notebook or a book, and I’d decided she had to be there for the players because apparently seventeen-year-old me had been too full of himself to imagine a girl might actually love hockey.Now she was stealing the puck from me during practice.And enjoying it way too fucking much.“Walker!”The puck sailed past my stick.“Shit.”Coach Daniels blew his whistle. “You planning to join us today?”Corey laughed.I flipped him off.Coach pointed toward the boards. “Again.”We reset for the power play.Ava wasn’t practicing today because Coach had her on an alternating schedule until her conditioning improved. I hadn’t realized how quickly I’d gotten used to seeing her out here until I kept looking toward the spot where she’d been yesterday.Onyx sighed.Mate.She’s in class.Find her.We’re at practic

AvaI spent the rest of Wolf History wondering how many things in my life might secretly be poisoning me.It was not particularly helpful for my concentration.By the time Jace and I walked outside, I’d mentally accused my shampoo, toothpaste, vitamins, favorite raspberry tea, and the cinnamon gum Sara had given me yesterday.“Stop.”I looked at him. “Stop what?”“Doing that.”“Very specific.”“You’re trying to figure out every single thing you’ve touched for eighteen years.”I hated that he knew me that well already.“I’m being reasonable.”“You just stared suspiciously at a water fountain.”“I don’t know where that water has been.”Jace caught my hand before I could keep walking.“Ava.”“What?”His thumb moved over my knuckles.The warmth came immediately.Onyx settled against the bond, and somewhere deeper, my own wolf shifted closer.Not trapped as far away anymore.Closer.That should have made me feel better.Instead, I wanted to cry.“What if she’s right?”“Professor Alden?”“W

AvaLyra.I said the name in my head once.Then again.Lyra.Warmth spread through my chest like she’d been waiting eighteen years for me to finally get it right.Jace was still kneeling beside me on the ice, staring like I’d just grown a second head.“Say something.”He blinked. “Your wolf just used your mouth.”“Yes, I’m aware.”“That was—”“If you say cool, I’m hitting you.”“I was going to say terrifying.”“Better.”His mouth twitched.Onyx wasn’t nearly as concerned.Lyra.The response came immediately.Onyx.His grin became ridiculous.“Oh, he likes that.”“Of course he does.”Mate wolf.Lyra seemed to consider this.Mine.Jace actually put a hand over his heart.“She likes me.”“She may be claiming Onyx.”His smile disappeared.“Rude.”I laughed, but then another tremor ran through my body.Jace caught my arm.“Ava?”“I’m okay.”I wasn’t sure that was true.My fingers hurt. My spine ached. Every inch of my skin felt too tight, like something underneath it was stretching.Lyra.