Ava opened her mouth to complain but Lucas said, "just eat your food baby. Before it gets cold."She nodded and continued to eat with a smile on her face. Lucas knew she liked to sit on his lap, said it was comfy. Probably didn't like it as much in front of most of the school though.Jackson was looking at Lucas with a glare on his face but he didn't really look that jealous. Lucas sent him a smirk nonetheless and cuddled closer to Ava.The jock cleared his throat awkwardly, to get Ava's attention probably. They all looked at him however, and waited for what he had to say. "So Ava, want to come to my house and work on the Chemistry project tomorrow?"Lucas immediately stiffened. He couldn't imagine what Jackson would do to Ava if they were at his house. Alone. Actually he could. He didn't want to though. "What?" He said through gritted teeth."We're partners for Chemistry." She said hesitantly, noticing how Lucas' had tensed. She grabbed his hand and started to massage it, fiddling wi
LUCAS was still in a bad mood throughout the rest of school. Avacould sense something was the matter but she didn't want to push him to tellher if he didn't want to.But, like he promised, he took Ava to the best ice cream parlour in townand she couldn't be more excited. It was a cute little one that had all sortsof different unusual flavours with many different colours. The walls werecovered in pastel colours and the seats were comfy sofas.She knew that Lucas didn't like to go because it was too childish orgirly. Apparently it wasn't manly to sit in a store surrounded by parentswatching their kids do the special colouring papers but whenever she gives himthe puppy dog eyes, he always gives in."I don't know why you like this place so much." Lucas complainedfor the fiftieth time since school ended."Because." She drawled, rolling her eyes at him."It's just so...""Yummy." Ava sighed with a dreamy expression, as she thoughtabout which flavour she'd get this time.This time
Lucas interrupted, "it's alright. She went to Ava straight away so itwas lucky she was good hands.""I can't thank you enough. Both of you." She emphasised,appreciation lacing her words."Just keep an eye on her next time." He warned.The lady nodded and walked out with the little girl waving at Lucas andAva. Ava licked her ice cream happily and waved at the girl, pleased she foundher mother.After that, the pair said their own goodbyes to Joe and set off to thepark. Ava loved going to the tree because even though she lost her mother andfather there, she gained Lucas and she was quite alright with that.Spending a while sat against the large tree and eating their ice cream,Ava started to get tired so she asked to go home. Lucas readily agreed, knowingthat home meant his house. Ava didn't call the children's home her home becauseas cringey as it may sound, home is where the heart is and her heart is alwayswith Lucas."Go put a movie on baby. I'll get the pizza." Lucas put som
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
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."