"N-nothingAlpha." Clearly, he realising his mistake. Ava noticed how scared helooked at stifled a small laugh as he quivered in his seat.Lucas strode over to him and put a hand on themans shoulder. The white in his knuckles and the wince the man did told Avathat it wasn't a friendly gesture."I am keeping my mate, your Luna, safe. Ifyou have a problem with this... please speak up." He spoke with a mocksmile at the end, daring the man to say something.Ava didn't want any violence and needed to tellhim about what she remembered. So, she made her way to him and tugged on theback of his t-shirt, hoping to get his attention. When it didn't work, shetentatively put her hand under the shirt and rubbed his tense back. "LuLu." She said quietly.He relaxed and broke his eye contact with the man."Yes my love?""I remember something about when I waskidnapped!" Ava said excitedly, knowing that after wishing she could dosomething to help, she finally had information that could be of
HE watched amusedly as hislittle mate scrunched her nose at the stench of sweat that lingered in the gymroom. This particular one had a sparring mat, which they both stood on. Onemore timidly than the other."It's not that bad." Lucas smiled softlyat her, pulling her closer to the centre of the large mat and ignoring thestares of the other pack members."I feel like the smell has gotten worse LuLu. It wasn't this bad last time." She complained. Ava absolutely dreadedfighting. She was good at it, a born natural surprisingly, but still hated it."It's just 'cause you haven't been here for awhile." He said and started to stretch, making Ava do the same thing. Shehummed in agreement.Ryan had told them last night that the rogues weresuspected to be in a warehouse. It wasn't in use as the company went bankruptyears ago and it was exactly two hours away from the cabin they had kept Avain. That was good enough reason to believe that is where they were. Lucasplanned for himself a
Lucas stared down at thecurled up boy, groaning in pain and panting from exhaustion of having to fightAva. She crouched next to the injured kid, checking to see if he was ok and ifshe had broken anything.Clearly, the boy didn't have all the abilities hebelieved he had as his human Luna managed to beat him. She was smart in how shefought, making every move tactical so no energy was wasted. Ava was quick onher feet and therefore, dodged most advances towards her. The ones she didn'tdodge were weak so didn't do much damage. It didn't stop Lucas from growling atthem to be careful.The little show even brought an audience aroundthem. Pack members, skilled warriors, all watched in awe of how their littleLuna fought. They were proud to see her use the little strength she had as ahuman against a werewolf."Get him to the doctor." Lucas orderedtwo men. Since their town was small and mainly populated by werewolves orpeople who knew of their existence, there was no need of a pack d
AVA fiddled with the topcorner of the page, staring at the words in her book. She wasn't reading itthough and found herself having to re-read sentences after zoning out.Her mind was on Lucas, as it was most of the time,but this was different. She worried for his safety. It was nearing ten o'clockand he wasn't back yet nor did she receive any text messages from him. Avaassumed the trip was successful and he found them but she doubted it would takethe whole day.None of the pack members had heard from them sothat was worrying. She only hoped they were ok but couldn't help wanting tofind out for sure. She was getting restless and had a bad feeling in her gut.Last time that happened Miss Lillian had died.Letting out a loud sigh, she checked her phoneagain only for no new messages to pop up on the screen. Ava slammed her phoneface down, annoyed and frustrated. I can't take it anymore! She threw her bookon the bed and quickly walked out of her room, determined to find a pack m
"Princess, wakeup." A voice sang softly in her ear, making her turn away from the sound,but then he suddenly yelled, "wake up!"She woke with a start and banged her head on thewindow painfully. "Oww." Ava pouted as she tried to open her eyesfully, still exhausted.Jackson rubbed her head sympathetically, beforeunbuckling his seat belt and getting out of the car. Ava followed his lead andlooked around."Wait. No no no no no." This wasn't thewarehouse Lucas had talked about. Instead she looked forward to see the cabinshe was kidnapped in. It's the wrong place!"What's wrong?""This isn't the place!" Ava was close toripping her hair out. She wanted to help and couldn't even get to the rightplace. She felt utterly useless."It's what was on the paper you gaveme." He said defensively."I gave you the wrong address." Shegroaned and rubbed her hand down her face. Lucas often did the same thing whenhe was annoyed and the thought of him made her smile slightly."That's dumb."Ava
HE groaned and groggily satup from the cold hard floor. It seemed like the type of floor that you'd findin a basement and it was not at all comfortable. Trying to get a bearing of hissurroundings, Lucas squinted his eyes to adjust to the dim lights.It looked like he was in a cell and his was one inplenty. Some of his pack was just sat there and some were still unconscious."What happened?" He asked Ryan, who was in the cell next to him."Don't know. I just woke up. Nobody's comedown to check on us or anything." His beta replied with his head restingon his knees.Lucas didn't know how to react to the recentevents. He knew there was a traitor in the pack but he had no idea it wassomeone so close to him. Connor must've told Veronica or the rogues that theywere going to the warehouse. He must've planned to kidnap them. Lucas' bloodboiled at he thought of one of his closest friends betraying him like that."Have you mind linked the rest of thepack?" He asked. He would've done i
"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
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."