HIS arms were wrapped around his little Ava, rough fingers grazingher bare arm. Lucas realised she was asleep from the quiet snores that emittedfrom her and the calming, even breaths that hit his naked chest every time shetook a breath.Obviously Lucas wasn't going to wake her to go back to the children'shome, so he was pleased with her staying the night. Miss Barnaby knew that ifAva wasn't there at the children's home, she'd be with Lucas so he didn'treally need to call the women to let her know Ava would be staying over. Hedidn't think Miss Barnaby cared that much to be honest. Or she knew she couldtrust Lucas to look after Ava.He looked down at her - the soft skin on her face, flawless apart from afew pimple scars, the long eyelashes that touched her high cheekbones, her cutelittle button nose and the pink, pouty lips that Lucas begged to kiss. Perfection.This is what he wanted forever. To go to sleep with Ava in his arms. Toknow that she'd be the last thing he would s
But he couldn't. It would expose werewolves to the humans in the corridor,watching them with curious eyes. Pack members watched their Alpha staredangerously at the scared boy. They knew what Lucas was capable of, even thehumans had a rumour that he was some kind of beast. Everyone watched, worriedfor the jock but none doing anything to stop it.Lucas closed his eyes to calm himself down and change his black eyes backinto it's normal grey colour. Taking deep breaths, he thought of his mate. Thetingles he gets when he touches her. The butterflies he gets when he catchesher checking him out. The scent of mangos that told him she was near. The warmfeeling in his heart whenever she smiles at him."Ava is mine." His eerily calm voice echoed in the usually loudhalls. "You got that?"Jackson gulped and nodded vigorously.Lucas applied more pressure to his chest, ensuring that bruises would beformed. "I said... you got that?" He said through gritted teeth,staring at Jackson dead in
IT was now lunch and Ava still hasn't seen him since they saidgoodbye that morning. She actually hadn't seen any of the boys. She even waitedat the end of every lesson in case Lucas came to meet her but he never did.When Jackson came back from his chat with Lucas, he looked more or lessok. A little sweaty but she assumed he just ran to lesson in fear of beinglate. Understanding that it was none of her business, she didn't want to askwhat they talked about. But, curiosity got the better of her and she ended upblurting out the question."Nothing really. Just wanted me to look after you." He whisperedcasually as to not draw attention to themselves. It sounded like somethingLucas would do but she looked at his Adam's apple bob as he swallowed and howhis eyes focused on Miss Gillies presentation for once. He'slying. She thought but didn't point it out. She had no idea why hewould lie but it must've been a secret. Ava was just concerned for Jackson asLucas tended to be a bit pr
IT wasn't until the sun started to go down that Lucas finally gothome. He had to stop a fight between some pack members so he was more thaneager to return home and have Ava in his arms."Where have you been?" Ryan asked him curiously. He also had abucket of fried chicken in his arms.Lucas groaned and rolled his eyes. "Some fight about who knows what.I put them in the cells to get them to sort it out." He reached for apiece of chicken only to have his hand slapped away."Mine!" Ryan ran away from him, protectively cradling thechicken.Shaking his head at his crazy friend, he walked into the pack house."Son. How did it go?" His father asked, referring to the rogues.Shrugging, he said, "easy. No injuries on our side. They must nothave known who's land it was."John nodded in understanding. "Well, there's some lasagne in theoven."He felt his stomach rumbling at the sound of Miss Lillian's lasagne butthen he wondered whether Ava had eaten yet."Is Ava here?" He asked his fathe
He was practically running around aimlessly when he decided that he neededall the help he could get to find her. "Ryan! Ava's lost. I- I have no idea where she is." He mind linked his best friend, whilst whipping his head at every littlesound."What do you mean she's lost?!" Ryan answered almost immediately, sounding worried for the little girl. Heknew far well she was too sweet for any harm to come to her."I mean she's lost man!! I didn't pick her up because of the roguesand I guess the receptionist didn't tell her I left. Not that it would've donemuch. She walked home and you know how Ava is..." Lucas couldn't control his ramblings, explaining rapidly the situation."Man! What's this about you losing Ava?! How could you do this toher. You know it's raining right?! She could get sick! Or die!" Mason joined in the conversation. Lucas growled at the thought and now hefelt angry - at himself and at others but that was probably to make himselffeel better."Be careful Mason. I a
SHE sneezed again and rolled her eyes at what she knew was to come. 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... And as expected, Lucas barged into the room. His hair was messy and his under eyes were dark, exhaustion clear on his face. Light stubble had made an appearance considering he hadn't shaved for days. "Are you ok? You called me. What's wrong?" His eyes were wide with concern as he climbed onto the bed in front of her, clutching onto her face with his large hands. Lucas searched her face for anything that could be wrong. Ava kept her face straight. "I sneezed." It had only been a few days since she was left by herself and was forced to take shelter, admittedly not very well shelter, on a tree. She had been staying with Lucas and Miss Barnaby didn't really mind. He clearly felt guilty because he wouldn't stop apologising since the moment she woke up. He even skipped school to look after her. Lucas was definitely much more attentive to her needs, puffing her pillows, bringing extra blankets,
LUCAS had Ava's backcuddled to his chest as they watched Sleeping Beauty. He would never say it outloud but it was actually his favourite Disney movie.Her small body was clad in one of his large shirtsand some cotton shorts. The bruises on her body were fading but would stillbring her slight pain when she moved sometimes. Lucas' jaw clenched and hishold on her tightened as he thought of the people responsible for bringing hislittle mate pain. It was hard for him to not kill the disgusting excuse ofhumans. He managed to settle for a few of his female pack members to take theirturns in torturing the girls.The pride in his chest was overwhelming when hewalked out of class to see his delicate Ava, kicking Ruby in the stomach. Hetaught her self defence sometimes and she was really good too but never likedviolence so it was surprising.Ava's pink lips moved as she quietly sang alongwith characters. He remembered how soft her lips felt when they took eachothers first kiss. Adm
"NOW we chop theapples." Ava mumbled to herself. The radio was on low in the background soher hips swayed to the music. She never thought she was the best dancer so madesure nobody was in the kitchen before moving her body to the soft beat.Lucas had dropped her off at his house beforegoing back to school for his football game. She hadn't been to any of his gamesbefore because he said it was too dangerous. The crowd would often get wildwhen cheering their team on so he didn't trust that Ava would be safe there.She told him she'd enjoy it but knew that deep inside, she would just want togo home. Crowds weren't her thing, surrounded by loud noises and people gettingaggressive. She would've wanted to support Lucas though.Bored with nothing to do, she decided to bakesomething as she hadn't done for a while. When she was home schooled, there hadbeen much more time to bake tasty treats for Lucas but now, she barely hadanytime to sleep with all the homework and stress from surpr
after the end: lucas' pov Lucas stomped downstairs with a pout as Ava locked him out of their bedroom to prepare for her own costume. Having no interest in celebrating Halloween, he let his little Ava choose his costume and organise how they'd be celebrating the holiday. He remember how her blue eyes lit up with excitement as she rambled about the different couple costume ideas she had and wrote them all down in her joker notebook. Lucas knew he couldn't deny her the simple happiness so he reluctantly became her doll to dress up however she wanted. Unfortunately, he did not expect her to dress him up in his usual all black outfit covered by a red hood with a basket of mini muffins. He was little red riding hood. And he was not happy. "It'll be fun, she said. I'll love you forever, she said." He mocked in an imitation of Ava and grumbled under his breath, "yeah you better love me forever after this." "Woah. Look at you!" Ryan said when he reached the kitchen. "What're you suppos
"Yes but you're goingto be ok." Lucas said through gritted teeth and began to strip himselfdown to his boxers. "I'm going to take your clothes off, ok baby girl?Skin on skin contact will help with the pain. We don't have to do anything butI'm staying with you." He assured her.She gave him a weak nod and wrapped her handsaround his neck and weaving her nimble fingers through hair, attempting to pullhim down to her. He gave her a quick kiss and then without hesitation, shed Avaof her shirt and jeans, leaving her in a pair of, to his surprise, dark redlace bra and thong.Oh Moon Goddess give me strength.Knowing he didn't want anyone to disturb them andwalk into the room, especially any males, he ran over to lock the door and thenscooped Ava into his arms. He made sure his scent surround her as hispossessiveness was at an all time high. He wanted her to forget anyone elseexisted.Her screams subsided when their limbs wereintertwined with each other's. Lucas' arms enveloped
"WHAT do you call acow that eats your grass?"Lucas stifled a groan as he lost his train ofthought again. His mate was continuously thinking of one terrible joke afterthe other, aiming to make him laugh. He hadn't been concentrating on schoolwork recently anyway because he had been preparing for the Luna ceremony thatwas tomorrow. So, he didn't need to be distracted with lame jokes. He alsodidn't want Ava to fail her exams if she wasn't paying attention."Listen to the teacher Ava." He scoldedher."WRONG! The answer was lawn moo-er. LawnMOO-er! Are you laughing? Are people looking at you weird?" She laughedevilly through the mind link."Ava l- "She interrupted him by saying, "now this one!Why did the cat go to Minnesota?"He decided to humour her and finally asked,"why?""To get a mini soda!" When he didn'trespond for a few long seconds, she sighed exasperatedly. "It's not asfunny with our accent. Here, I'll say it again in an American one so pretendyou don't know the a
A day later, Ava wasaddicted to Chamomile tea. It was definitely helping her control her emotionsso with that, she felt it was a tiny little bit easier to lie to Lucas. Shedidn't want to but there was no other option.She told him that she was going shopping withSabrina after school but in actual fact, her father was taking her to thepsychiatric hospital to visit her mother. When the idea was brought up to hermate, he instantly said it was a bad idea. He thought she could get hurt bothphysically and emotionally from the visit. Apparently there was no good outcome.But, Ava knew it would provide some closure and ifher mother could get better and become the loving mother she had alwaysimagined, it would be worth it."Are you nervous?" Her father asked herwith his hands gripping the steering wheel tightly. He was visibly sweating alittle as he strained a smile in her direction.She shrugged, feigning a calm composure but on theinside she was the exact opposite. "Kind of. You?
"HE hates me!"She wailed hopelessly to Sabrina.A little part of her felt guilty for forcing herfriend to endure her endless babbling but the larger part of her didn't reallycare about anything other than the misery she was feeling. Ava had spent therest of the day wallowing in self pity as she would continually cry out thather mate didn't love her, only to have Sabrina disagree every time in anattempt to console her.But no matter what she said, Ava wouldn't believea word until she had her Lucas cuddling with her like he was supposed to do.She internally pouted at the fact that he wasn't doing his job."I'm sure he doesn't." Sabrina repeatedfor the thousandth time. "He's absolutely obsessed with you. It'ssickening really."She peered up at her with a distressed look."Then how come he hasn't come back yet?" It was nearing midnight andhe hadn't even returned any of her calls or messages. She was worried about himand nobody else seemed to know where he went when she mind li
"Lucas. Let go of him!Please." Hearing the fear in her voice broke him out of whatever trance hewas in. Lucas turned around to wrap his arms around Ava and she hugged him backjust as tightly. His whole body was shaking with the urge to shift and show theweak wolf who was Alpha. He nuzzled his head her neck, breathing in her mangoscent with her soft hair caressing his cheek. He needed to hold his mate - makesure she was there. That she was with him and she wasn't leaving him.As Ava rubbed her hand soothingly up and down hisback, he repeated mumbled, "you're mine. All mine. Not his. Mine. Mygirlfriend. My mate. Mine to love." He held her close to him, kissing themark on her neck with his eyes squeezed shut."Argh. Geez that hurt." Lucas heard theinjured Edward say but he didn't stop from muttering his words, as if he wasconvincing himself, telling himself they were true and that there wasn't abetter person for her. That she belonged to him because he only belonged to her."
WITH the night spent awayuntil the early hours in the morning in their wolf forms, Lucas immediatelyfell into a deep sleep as soon as his back hit the bed. He faintly rememberedhis little Ava climbing underneath his arm and snuggling into his chest before,she too, fell asleep.As he slowly regained consciousness, he felt eyesboring into his skin. His arm covered his mate's waist while the top of herbody leaned on his torso. He could tell she was close to his face from thesmall puffs of air that hit his skin every time she breathed.He made sure not to make any sudden movements thatwould let her know he was awake because he was curious as to what she was goingto do. He felt Ava's small fingertip lightly press onto his eyebrow, tracing itbefore moving onto the other one. He stayed still whilst she ran her fingerdown the ridge of his nose and booped it, eliciting a giggle out of her. Lucas suppressed his laughter at his weird mate'sactions, subconsciously tightening his grip
She jumped and looked ather mate. Feeling extremely happy he was there, she tried to run to him, onlyto trip over her own paws. As Lucas crouched beside her, she noticed how muchsmaller she was compared to when she was a human. Yapping happily, she jumpedup and down, licking his face as he chuckled."You're adorable. Look." He showed herhis phone with a picture of a beautiful blonde wolf. Cocking her head to theside, she analysed every inch of it. It was a small thing. It looked more likea puppy than a wolf. This is me? She rested her head on the grass with a huff.Ava had expected to be big and menacing like her Alpha mate. Not a tiny pup."Can you hear me?"She jumped again, startled at the voice in herhead that sounded a lot like Lucas. Nuzzling her head into his leg, shewhimpered and whined in fear that she was going crazy."Don't be afraid. It's just me. You can nowmind-link me because you've got powers." Lucas reassured her aloud."Hi?" She asked hesitantly in her head
EVERY part of her body wasin pain. Her muscles ached, making her feel like she had ran a marathon whenshe hadn't even moved from her bed since coming home from their short holiday.Her vomiting had subsided but she felt hot and cold at the same time, whileextremely uncomfortable in every position she lay. Ava squirmed on the bed,bitting her lip to stop from screaming out in pain and disturbing everyone inthe pack house.Her eyes were shut tightly with tears spilling outof them. She felt Lucas pull her, now, bleeding lip from her mouth, gently withhis thumb. Whimpering, she reached out for his hand and put it to her face,wanting to feel the tingles he gives her. She wanted to feel something otherthan pain."I'm sorry this is happening to you."His voice broke as he kissed her temple. "I'm so so sorry, baby."The door opened and heels clicked on the floor,followed quickly by someone clearing their throat. "Alpha." Someone,a woman, said."Please tell me what's wrong with her."