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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
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Ava was still thinking of what Andrei said when Zeke took her hand to follow out of the basement.“Wait,” she said, closing the door so they wouldn’t be overheard. “We should trust him. He and Iulia trapped me in the library and told me that we’d get killed if I shifted and came after you. They saved our lives.”Zeke shook his head, and his eyes glowed. “But why, Ava? Are you thinking of that? Why are they helping us? I doubt that Alpha Diego is so sentimental that he doesn’t want wolves like him to die. And Andrei slit Emily’s throat without blinking. He doesn’t know you or owe you anything; he’s going to slit your throat, too, if he’s told to.”“But if they are on our side... Come on, Zeke, you know we can’t win,” she said quietly. “We won’t win if you think like that. You promised we wouldn’t just give up, Ava. Please, at least speak to your wolf because she has a say in this, too.”Zeke didn’t wait for her to say anything else as he opened the door. She followed slowly, her mind
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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
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Ava felt so sick to her stomach that she couldn’t eat breakfast. They had it in the basement so they could finalise the plans. The soldiers and the three council members would stand between them and Mr Hansson, but if they managed to defeat the Head of the Council, his hold on the others would break.At least, that was the theory.They were going on so much guesswork, and she didn’t like that when her father’s life was at stake. “Ava.”She looked up at Mr Patrick and saw the regret on his face.“I’m sorry they got your father, but I know he’ll expect you to go ahead with the plan,” Mr Patrick said.Her anger at him rose again, but she just nodded and looked away. He hadn’t been able to protect her father, but he thought he could protect them. How? They should never have started any of this in the first place.“There are faculty members on our side, willing to join the fight when the time comes. We can do this, Ava. Your father wants you—”“Don’t talk to me about my father,” she snap
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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
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So many guards lined up along both sides of the road as the students walked to where the dean had directed them to after lunch. Ava could sense the unease. She had walked down this road once, the day she had tried to walk away from Zeke after she had been discharged from the Infirmary. It was one of the few roads too close to the forest. She could already feel that darkness from it looming over her.Her palms felt sweaty, and she couldn’t stop her heart pounding hard against her chest. The students walking in front of them kept turning back, so she was sure they could hear it. The bag on her back felt even heavier than in the morning when Derek had handed it to her.The students were walking silently, but the guards still looked at each of them as they passed as if they were watching over prisoners. Of all of them, only Zeke and her were holding hands. She couldn’t remember when the last time she had worried about breaking the rules was. As they approached the dead end of the road,
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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
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Ava’s scream split Zeke’s heart in two.Her pain, her guilt, overwhelmed him. Zeke dropped his bag and tried to go to his mate, only to find himself bound by that bastard’s magic. He was held in his place while Ava was lifted into the air. Just to torment her, to show her that he could do this and there was nothing Ava could do about it.Then, the body was thrown into the woods. He sensed those vile creatures moving around like they were in a frenzy as they closed in on the kid’s body. Ava whimpered. He knew she could feel them, too, but her guilt was shutting her down. She had already given up. “Now, who’s next,” Mr Hansson said. As if he was serving crumpets at a tea party. What the hell was wrong with this guy?Shadow fought to take control, to shift and rip the man to shreds, but the magic bound him, too. Ava was released and fell to her knees on the stage, but her gaze remained on the spot where the kid’s body had been thrown. There was nothing but grief radiating from her. Be
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Human blood still scented the air hours after the fight. It was everywhere. On the narrow path up the mountain. On the cold, unyielding side of the mountain. Over the trees, bushes and dead leaves on the ground. Silver bullet casings and broken silver weapons were scattered on the forest floor. Sharp lengths of twine were tied between tree trunks like traps, and blood dripped from them. There was something else on it besides that metallic scent, something spicy and woodsy, and very faint.Putting her nose closer to the twine, she started to inhale. A second later, strong arms circled her chest and wrenched her away.“Don’t touch that. Wolfsbane,” Zeke said.Of course. She had never been around it, but she was sure the other wolves in the pack were taught how to detect it from the moment they shifted. It was deadly to wolves, poisoning their systems as quickly as silver. A chill rushed down her spine at how close she’d come to making a rookie mistake.Stepping out of Zeke’s arms, she l
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‘Let’s at least find out what happened to the Moonvalley Alpha first,’ Zeke mindlinked Ava. ‘There are too many humans here.’Ava’s apprehension was obvious through their bond, but so were her rage and fear. Tension coiled up in his stomach. Whenever he got like this, he always pulled the silver chains out for Derek and Myles to restrain him. But now, they were freely running near humans. Even if it was a small town, people would notice if half of them got wiped out by raging beasts.‘I’ve only been this far from our territory once, and Dad didn’t even let me get out of the car. I don’t even know where this diner is, so we need to speak to Nate.’It was clear from her tone that she didn’t like that, but some of the tension uncoiled because she wasn’t about to burrow through innocent people in town without a plan.The sun was setting when they stopped near the forest’s edge. Zeke followed Ava to a small wooden cabin, where she shifted without much regard to the humans he sensed close to
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The Silver Daggers. A bunch of fucking neanderthals who’d dwindled their numbers even before the Council had formed to take them down. Probably the only good thing the Council had done.Psychopaths on the same level as Hansson, with their well-documented kills and torture methods. And they had somehow dug up enough information on his mate to have a recent photo of her and also know which orphanage she’d been at before being adopted. In which world was that the kind of information someone kept to themselves?Shadow growled in his head, pissed off with Ava’s family for the first time since meeting Roland. ‘Let’s go hunt them down,’ he ordered. Oh, that was a given. The only question was how to make Ava go back home. Dealing with Hansson together was one thing. They had been trapped at the academy and had no other options. But he would not willingly let Ava face another asshole like Hansson. He would not risk her life. “Answer me,” Ava said, stepping closer to Nate.“No, I don’t thin
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Ava glared at her brothers after she pulled a T-shirt over her head. The boys had accepted shorts and were already eating the bowls of a meat and vegetable stew that they had been offered. How could they even eat at a time like this? She took her place beside Zeke, and the older woman who’d given her the clothes gave her a bowl, too. She recognised her as the Luna immediately. Audrey had come forward before Nate could tell her anything about the secret they were keeping.When her father first brought her to visit the Moonvalley Pack, she was impressed that the pack's protection fell on all their shoulders equally despite being so traditional in other roles. Her father said Luna Audrey could kick ass as hard as Alpha Barrett.“I’m sorry, Luna. I don’t think I can eat right now,” she said, smiling at the woman.“Your wolf needs to eat,” Luna Audrey said, pushing the bowl towards her. “It’s true, isn’t it? You shifted?”Her reputation as the only human in the Mystic River territory had sp
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The air was sharper, and his eyes picked up the smallest grain of soil—as impossible as that seemed. He could hear the smallest critters scurrying under the decomposing matter on the forest floor. His hind legs launched him easily over shrubs and fallen trees while the wind rushed past his face with an almost overwhelming force.His heart pumped with the surge of adrenaline, and below that, the strange, unfamiliar energy. What the hell was this? Nyx hadn’t stopped running since they shifted when they reached the forest. Keeping close behind her, Shadow followed the almost non-existent trail. Even with his stronger senses, Alpha Morgan’s scent wasn’t there at all. And the warriors he’d taken with him must have been some of his best men because they’d hardly left a trail.He’d expected Nyx to flounder a few times because she was still new, but the other half of him hadn’t lost the trail even once. Not that he expected anything different. Even without the strange boost they seemed to h
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No. No, no, no.Her fault. Why the hell hadn’t she trusted herself?Ava was out of the door before anyone could stop her. The guards had already gathered in the front yard, discussing what was happening. “...they’ve brought the bodies to the morgue. Can’t recognise them...”“...might be the same rogues that attacked the Moonvalley pack...”“...they didn’t make it there, so we still don’t know what’s going on over there...”Her fault.It was Emily and Dexter all over again.She shouldn’t have stayed in the background when she knew she was strong enough to help.“Ava,” Caleb called out as he followed her down the front steps. “I’ve already organised the search party. The trackers are already out there, and I’m going to join them. Stay here and—”“Even now, you’re trying to stop me?” she asked, facing her brothers.“It’s not safe—”“Then tell me why the hell you’ve kept me inside when you know I can help?” she growled.Caleb didn’t look away from her, but Nate, Alex, and Nick glanced a
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Ava opened the back door again and glared at the wolf leaning against a tree at the edge of the forest. It was long past noon, and there hadn’t been any word from her father or the people he’d left with. Nyx growled, growing restless. She should have listened to her wolf from the start.Nyx was not very vocal, but she understood her wolf’s emotions perfectly. And it wasn’t helping that something else was simmering just under her skin, ready to burst. It had worried her when she woke, but there were bigger things to worry about now. Anxiety made the wait unbearable.Her father had always taught her to stand up for herself, so whatever rumours were going around about Zeke shouldn’t have made him go to such extremes. It was easy to prove that he was innocent. Why did it feel like she was missing something?That was the only thing stopping her from going after him. The fact that she didn’t know what was really going on. Her brothers were protective but always let her make her own choices.
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It was strange to see all four mini Morgans looking at him directly without an ounce of fear. He and Ava sat on one couch while the brothers sat on the massive leather one that ran along two walls of the lounge. They had the same ash-blond hair in different styles and the same piercing blue eyes. Alpha Roland’s genes were clearly superior because he couldn’t see a trace of their mother. Even the judgy expressions were the same as their father’s.“Is this what they teach you in your pack? To disrespect a girl in her own home?” Caleb growled.They’d remained quiet until they herded him and Ava into the house. The rest of the pack had remained at the school, but he could sense some of them coming closer.“I meant no disrespect—”“She’s my little sister,” Caleb interrupted. “Don’t give me that bullshit.”As the oldest and the one who would take charge after his father, Caleb would have been given the same lessons as he had. At least the basics. Did he not understand what a true mate was?
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Okay, now that was messed up. Nyx went on alert when all the attention focussed on Zeke, and Ava’s blood started to simmer. “Why are you looking at him?” she asked, finally lifting her head to look around the room.She’d anticipated some backlash once everyone heard the whole story about Hansson but assumed it would die as quickly as it usually did when she caused her father some trouble. It was why she’d not wanted to cause any waves for minor things. But for them to call Zeke a demon and blatantly suspect him of such a heinous crime?“He’s walking around with you, so something is obviously wrong with him,” Riley muttered from somewhere behind her.“As opposed to a wolf who can barely shift and can’t be admitted to an academy where a mere human was accepted?” she growled, not ashamed to hit below the belt.Several gasps brought her back to her senses, and she breathed deeply to calm the storm brewing inside her.The last time anyone had been a threat to Zeke, she’d levelled him in
