All Chapters of The Alpha’s Puck Bunny: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

JaceThere were three things I knew about Ava Peters.She could out-argue a lawyer, eat her weight in pancakes, and somehow make me feel like the luckiest bastard alive just by smiling at me.Unfortunately, she was currently doing none of those things.Instead, she sat beside me in the student center, glaring at her phone like she was considering throwing it into the nearest wall.“You’re going to burn a hole through that screen,” I told her.“Good. Maybe it’ll take the comments with it.”I glanced over her shoulder.Another anonymous post had appeared beneath the video of her argument with Vanessa.Funny how the Puck Bunny gets a hockey captain, a spot on the team, and a special wolf. What’s next? Her own pack?Ava groaned.“Oh, for the love of the Moon Goddess. I don’t want a pack. I can barely manage my laundry.”I laughed.She didn’t.That bothered me more than I wanted to admit.Ava had spent years being treated like she wasn’t good enough. I’d contributed to that, something I wo

AvaThere were many things a girl hoped to hear before her first official date with her boyfriend.You look beautiful.I made reservations.Don’t worry, I’m paying.What she did not want to hear was that somebody had apparently hired the school’s resident mean girl to make sure she ended up alone.Especially when said mean girl was standing in front of her looking like she’d swallowed a lemon.“Let me get this straight,” I said, staring at Vanessa’s phone. “Someone sent you a message telling you to insult me, and you actually did it?”Vanessa folded her arms.“I was already angry with you.”“Oh, well, that makes it perfectly reasonable.”“I didn’t know they were serious!”Jace stepped closer to me.“Vanessa, whoever sent those messages knew about our date.”She looked at him.“I didn’t tell anyone.”“Then how did they know?”“I don’t know!”Several students turned to look at us.Wonderful.Another public performance starring Ava Peters, the academy’s favorite source of entertainment.

JaceI was beginning to think dating Ava Peters should come with a warning label.May cause excessive worrying, unexpected confrontations, and the overwhelming urge to punch people who threaten your girlfriend.Unfortunately, I was pretty sure Ava would object to the last part.She’d probably tell me she could punch them herself.And knowing my mate, she’d be right.“You’re staring,” she whispered.We were still in the Silver Ridge conference room, and she was studying the strange symbol on Margaret Whitmore’s note.“I’m thinking.”“That sounds dangerous.”“Very funny.”She smiled, but it didn’t reach her eyes.That bothered me.Ava had finally shifted. She’d earned her place on the hockey practice squad, and we’d managed to have our first real date, even if it ended with another threat.She deserved to enjoy those things.Instead, she was sitting in my father’s headquarters, worrying about a fifteen-year-old boy she’d never met.Typical Ava.Always worrying about everyone else.My fa

AvaI was beginning to think the Moon Goddess had confused me with someone who actually enjoyed solving mysteries.Because I didn’t.I enjoyed hockey, cheeseburgers, writing in my diary, and kissing my boyfriend.Preferably not in that order.Unfortunately, Lyra had other plans.Coming, she repeated.I sat beneath the oak tree beside Jace, staring at absolutely nothing.What’s coming?Don’t know.Wonderful.My supernatural wolf apparently came with ancestral memories but no instruction manual.“Ava?” Jace squeezed my hand. “Talk to me.”I explained what Lyra had shown me.The five wolves.The circle.The dark wolf trying to escape something beyond it.Jace listened without interrupting.“So the fifth bloodline wasn’t the enemy?”“I don’t think so.”“Then what were the others protecting it from?”“That’s the million-dollar question.”He rubbed his jaw.“Maybe Professor Alden can help.”I groaned.“Can we please go one day without involving a professor?”He grinned.“You’re the one dati

AvaThere were two things I wanted to accomplish before graduation.First, become good enough at hockey that Coach Daniels stopped looking like he regretted allowing me onto the team.Second, survive long enough to actually graduate.At the moment, I wasn’t entirely confident about either.“You’re doing it again,” Sara said.I looked up from my notebook. “Doing what?”“Staring at the same page without writing anything.”“I’m thinking.”“About hockey?”“Ancient supernatural imprisonment.”She sighed and dropped into the chair opposite me.“Remember when your biggest problem was Jace Walker calling you Puck Bunny?”“Fondly.”“Life was simpler.”“Life was terrible.”“Fair point.”We were sitting in the student center before our first class. I’d been trying to finish an English assignment, but my brain kept returning to Serena, the mysterious silver ring, and the Guardian who’d promised to return for her.Three hundred years.That girl had been waiting three hundred years.And somehow, I