Pain was the first thingAva felt when she grew conscious. The second thing was a trail of tingles andelectricity as Lucas ran his nose up and down the side of her neck.The events of last nights were a blur. It all feltlike a dream. Werewolves. Blood. They were all things that were clear but shedidn't want to believe it was true. It couldn't be.Trying to ignore the painful throbbing of herhead, Ava attempted to untangle herself from Lucas but it was difficult withthe firm grip he had on her and that their legs were intertwined. It was to thepoint she had no idea where she started and ended."Stop moving." His husky morning voicesent shivers through Ava's body but she tried her best to hide it. The smirk hehad told her she didn't do a good job."My head hurts." Ava whined and rolledon top of him so she lay flat on her belly and on his chest. She snuggled intohis chest as his arms held onto her waist.He chuckled tiredly. "That's what you get fordrinking.""I hardly had any
EXPLOSIONS were all Lucassaw behind his closed eyelids. They were all he felt in his body as he kissedthe love of his life. His lips tingled as they touched hers and he couldn'tremember how his life had been without this pleasure.He was about to pull away when suddenly, he feltAva tentatively move her lips against his softly. The kiss was gentle andloving. It wasn't lust filled or impulsive. It was sweet and the best feelinghe had ever felt in his life.Lucas loved how neither were experts at kissing asthey had never kissed anyone apart from each other once when they were younger.They learnt together and just did whatever felt natural.This definitely felt natural.Warmth filled his chest and his heart beatincreased with happiness as he realised that his Ava was kissing him back -that she wasn't rejecting him nor pushing him away. At the thought, Lucascouldn't help but smile and pull away from her.He didn't think he had ever smiled so widelybefore as he took in the sight
To Ava:Get ready for 7:00. I'll pick you up for our date.I love you baby girl. xxxFrom Ava:Ok. I wish you'd say where we're going. :( xxTo Ava:Not a chance beautiful. It's a surprise. ;) xxxFrom Ava:Alright. See you soon. I love you too! XxxxLucas' lips curled into a smile as he put hisphone away. Every breath felt lighter, every action easier and every step had aspring because he finally told her he loved her and she knew it wasn't meant ina friendly, sisterly way. She knew he was in love with her and was in love withhim back.He was aware of the people staring at him as hestrolled through the park. All of them were wondering why his smile was widerand his eyes were brighter than usual. Without Ava by his side, the Alpha wouldbe moody and unapproachable so the fact that Lucas looked the way he did wasconfusing as the little Luna was nowhere in sight.He didn't take any notice though and carried on.Lucas knew exactly what his date with Ava was going to be. He had pla
IT had been hours, or whatfelt like hours to Ava, of waiting for Lucas to come and get her like she knewhe would. Ava pitied the people that kidnapped her because they'd have to facean angry Lucas and that was not a good thing.It wasn't too bad. The room, she was kept in,looked nothing like a cell. It was just a bedroom with comfortable bedding,nice decorations and a large tv on the wall. There was even an ensuite that hada working shower. This wasn't what Ava had expected to happen.However, the windows were boarded up and the roomwas locked. No sharp or dangers objects were anywhere either. This reminded hershe wasn't on a holiday. She was kidnapped.The people didn't harm her whatsoever though. Notthat she was complaining but confusion was all she felt, maybe a little worriedbut she had faith in her mate.More than anything, she wanted something to do -bored out of her mind with nothing to occupy her time with. She had brieflydebated about escaping but she knew nothing
Wind hit her when the doorslammed open, breaking off the hinges and landing on the floor in front of thebed. Ava then released a large sigh of relief as she saw who came in the room,through her blurry eyes.Jumping out of the bed, she ran to the massiveblack wolf and hugged its neck tightly. "Lu Lu." Ava cried into hisfur.He licked her face and neck, making her squeal andwipe the saliva away. Suddenly, his bones started cracking and before Ava knewit, the previously black werewolf had turned into Lucas. A naked Lucas.Ava gasped and covered her eyes. "Cover yourbits!""You've seen it before Ava." She heardhim say. There was some shuffling followed by, "Ok you can look now."She tentatively removed her hands from her eyes tosee Lucas now with pants on but no top. However, she did appreciate his nakedtorso very much. His hands came to her hips where he pulled her to him so theirfronts were touching."Yeah but it's different now. You're my boyfriend."She stressed, enjoying
LUCAS watched as the closedcasket was lowered gently into the ground. He gave comfort to Ava as she sobbedinto his chest, both feeling depressed but only one showing it.He kept his face emotionless throughout the wholefuneral, surrounded by a sea of grief stricken bodies in black outfits. Thewhole pack watched silently as the beloved member was covered up with soil. Infact, most of the town was present at the funeral, the death touching everyone.Words were spoken but Lucas couldn't focus on anyof it. It was like he wasn't there and only his body was present. The touch ofhis mate was all he felt. He tried to focus on that but it was impossible whensadness seeped into his skin. The suffering look on Ava's perfect faceshattered his heart even more than he thought could be possible.He didn't know how he was supposed to feel. Noneof it felt real. It felt like one big nightmare. This was the person who hadlooked after him all his life. This was the person who was there for him
Flashback"Miss Wiwian!" A young Lucas came inrunning into the kitchen and crashed into Miss Lillian's legs, wrapping hislittle arms around them."What's the matter my dear? What's gotten youall teary eyed?" She said, wiping the tears off the sobbing boy. MissLillian picked the three year old up and put him on the counter."Daddy no wove Wucas!"She continued to wipe his tears with a tissue andcooed, "of course he does! How can he not?"The little boy frantically shook his head."No. Mummy die so he work work work." Miss Lillian watched as hespoke with animated gestures and glassy eyes."That doesn't mean he doesn't love you."She spoke to him in a soothing tone, rubbing his belly to calm him down."You make a-apple cwumble. You wove me. Daddyno wake apple cwumble. Daddy no wove me." He explained to her.Miss Lillian had made Lucas plenty of applecrumbles, knowing it was his favourite. Lucas knew his daddy was busy but hewould've thought he'd have time for apple crumble. So,
THE dimly lit room made Avasquint her eyes to see, coughing at the amount of dust settled on the surfaces.Her arms were outstretched in an attempt to find the light switch."Found it!" Called Connor as the singlelight bulb turned on.It was a whole month since Miss Lillian passedaway. Lucas was still working hard on finding Veronica and the traitor in thepack. He seemed better after the night Ava was awoken by his cries. Shelistened to how he was feeling and was there for him and vice versa. Theyhelped each other grieve for the woman they loved so dearly.It was all so surreal. Ava thought she'd wake fromthe nightmare any second and then go downstairs to see Miss Lillian making herbreakfast with a smile on her face. But, it wasn't a dream and the thought wasonly just starting to set in.She hadn't been going to school and neither hadLucas. The teachers understood and told them to take as long as they wanted tobe ready to come back to school. Thought, Ava suspected that her
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."