"Because adorablelittle Ava is Lucas' mate and I knew he would want to rescue his damsel indistress. And, someone I know wanted to see her so..." she trailed off."You know what the best part is though?" Veronica asked and then likeit were a big secret, she mock whispered, "she's going to leave you.""The heck?! No she's not." Lucasimmediately denied.Veronica laughed maniacally. "Yes shewill," she said in a sing song voice. "Why would she choosefamily..." she paused to look at Lucas distastefully and finished,"over you?"His mind was completely jumbled with millions ofthoughts. Just the idea of his beautiful perfect mate leaving him sent hisheart in a frenzy, ready to beat out of his chest. Sweat dripped from hisforehead but he felt cold at the same time. His mouth was dry, making it nearlyimpossible for him to generate a response out of him.But, then he actually thought about his Ava. Hethought about the person she is and knew that she wouldn't leave him. Shewouldn't l
|VERONICA|24 YEARS AGO|She didn't feel any different as she smoothed downthe wrinkles in her tight fitted top. An eighteenth birthday was supposed to bethe beginning of adulthood apparently but Veronica felt like the same girl shewas yesterday.However, she was a little more excited today.The mirror reflected her whole outfit back at her.A burgundy two piece encased her body, showing off her toned stomach and longlegs. The skirt was short and quite a lot of cleavage was visible but it washer birthday. Veronica felt like she could do whatever she wanted and bewhoever she wanted. If she wanted to dress in little material that emphasisedher assets, nobody was going to stop her.Veronica was quite tall, much taller than some ofthe girls in the pack but smaller than most of the males. Her best friendtowered over her and he made sure to remind her every chance he got.With a giddy smile on her face, she slipped intosome black stilettos and checked her makeup one last time befor
Veronica was stunned. Herjaw fell open as she struggled to comprehend the words that came out of him.Conscious of her open mouth and blatant staring, she quickly snapped her mouthshut. "Y-your mate?" She asked quietly, trying to not show herdevastation."Yeah! Isn't this great?!" He said andgazed down at Rosie lovingly.Veronica felt her heartbreak into pieces and shewilled herself not to cry in front of all these people. She had only everwished for him to look at her with that look. She had dreamed of it butsuddenly this stranger appeared and took away everything she could have everwanted.And it was nobody's fault. She couldn't even blamethem. All she could do was be happy for her best friend and accept that afriend is all he will ever see her as.The girl must've sensed that Veronica was lost forwords as she stuck her hand out for her to shake and said, "hi. I'm Rosie.I've heard so much about you."Veronica stopped herself from crushing the smallhand in hers and firml
|CARRYING ON FROM LASTCHAPTER|The familiar voice in the room made John suddenlyuse his Alpha strength and push Veronica off him, making her fly into the wall.In the midst of the struggle, John had also bitten her lip so she held onto itangrily as she watched him vigorously wipe his mouth."Rosie baby. It's not what it lookslike!" John said as he walked to a crying Rosie.She looked between the two and stared at him witha heartbroken look. Veronica didn't find it in herself to care."What does it look like John?" Rosieasked quietly, her voice breaking between words.He cupped her face in his hands and bent a littleto look her in her eyes to display his honesty. "It looks like I cheatedbut I promise you, I did not. She came in and kept saying how she loved me andhow I loved her and then she kissed me and I tried to pulled away. I really didbut she held onto my hair and it really hurt.""Poor baby." Rosie said and rubbed hishead when she saw his pout at the end. It was clear
Veronica was laid her headon the window of the car as she remember the lifeless body of Rosie. Sheremembers standing proudly in front of the body, mauled to death by her wolfpreviously. Rosie was no longer alive and Veronica had never felt lighter.Will had asked some of his rogue friends todistract the pack which worked. All Veronica had to do was sneak into Rosie'sroom and then attack her. Unfortunately, being the Luna it meant she wasstronger than any other wolf so she did put up a fight.They had to leave almost immediately after so theywouldn't get caught. Their scent however, would've lingered in the roomespecially with Veronica's blood spilled too.She still felt giddy whenever she thought aboutwhat John's reaction would be. She wished she could see his face as he steppedin the room. He'd see the blood on the walls first and then the floor. Then hiseyes would meet the dead body of his wife."You sure she's here?" Will asked as hekept his hand on her thigh. The tingl
ALL pain was forgotten whenLucas was forced to listen to the lady's story. He was infuriated by what heheard and Ava's sobs enraged him even more.Veronica didn't seem fazed by the anger rollingoff of nearly everyone in the room. At the beginning she told the story with asad smile but then ended it proudly, bringing disgust to Lucas."Revenge?! You did all this forrevenge?!" He yelled in disbelief. His heart was beating out of his chestand his whole body was shaking with his wolf fighting to come out. Thewolfsbane was wearing away quickly because of it."Of course I did. I suffered all those years.The humiliation. The bullying." Then she paused and stared at John whilstsaying quietly, "being in love with someone who didn't love you back butinstead lead you on."Lucas' father fought against his restraints inoutrage and shouted, "I did no such thing! I swear I had no idea of yourfeelings! And just because I didn't love you back didn't mean you had to murdermy wife!""She st
THE first thing Avaregistered was the soft material against her skin. She could tell she was on abed and from the familiar scent, it was most likely the bed she shared withLucas.Her fingers moved against the sheets a little asshe regained consciousness. Slowly, her blue eyes fluttered open only to squintat the bright light. She let them adjust before opening them fully to see ascruff of brown hair on bed. Lucas was lying on his hands, facing away fromher, presumably sleeping.She looked down at the portion of her body notcovered by the thick duvet to see it clad in one of Lucas' t-shirts and a castcovering her left arm. From wiggling around a little, it was clear that she hadhurt the left side of her torso too.Unable to get up, Ava just sighed and ran herfingers through Lucas' hair with her working arm. She giggled when the feelingcaused him to moan as he usually did when she played with his hair. Although,everyone loves their hair to be played with so it was only natur
"Why the fu- heckersis he giving you flowers?" Her Lucas growled. He snatched the small cardand re read it with a frown etched on his handsome face.She shrugged her right shoulder, wanting to avoidmoving her left side as much as possible. "It's a thank you. You have tothank him for me ok?" Ava didn't know whether this Leo would visit her andit wasn't as if she was able to get up and find him."Whatever." He grumbled, ripping thecard in half making Ava huff and roll her eyes. "I actually have to have aword with you." He told her in a tone which told her she was in trouble."Hmm?""Why were you there in the first place Ava?"He looked angry so she avoided eye contact."Look, pretty flowers. Ooo." She wavedthe flowers in his face, hoping to distract him but it didn't work as he tookthem out of her hand and placed them on the table."I'm serious. I don't want you getting inanymore dangerous situations because look at you." He gestured to herbroken arm, making her look down in
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."