Page 23 of Ava: Part One

“After the training, you have to clean up before you are dismissed for the day. I’ve pinned a list on the board; find your duties.”

What?

“Ava Morgan?”

She lifted her hand when her name was called. The woman frowned at her as she sniffed the air. It was so rude; being sniffed all the time was ridiculous.

“It says here that you have detention after training. You’re excused from after-training duties for today.”

The woman shook her head. Her disappointment was obvious, but Ava was beyond caring about her detention now. Detention seemed like a party compared to all the other shit she had to do.

“First Years, work details will be sent to your tablets by the evening. Follow instructions and report to your duties at the allocated time tomorrow.”

The more Ava heard, the angrier she became. Not only were the Omegas being taught how to be the help, but they were also the help at the Academy. If she stayed there too long, her head would explode.

She let the others go to the board first while she stayed on the bench, clenching and unclenching her fists. She had to keep reminding herself to keep her head down; she had to make sure her family didn’t suffer because of her actions. She had to do this the right way. She would get an audience with the Council when they came, and they would hear her out and send her home.

When the locker room was almost empty, Ava sighed and walked over to the notice board. She rolled her eyes when she saw she was to set up the equipment in the beginner gym.

“I’m on the same duty. Come on, I’ll show you what to do,” Emily said.

She followed the wolf out of the room and past several large and small rooms. The academy seemed to put a lot of effort into the training; there was a lot of expensive equipment she could see being set up by the other Omegas.

When Emily finally led her into a room that looked like a regular high school gym, she pointed out the equipment she had to set out and how to do it.

As she was unrolling a mat in the centre of the room, something made her look up and turn to the door. It was the psycho wolf. He stood unmoving in the doorway, and his amber eyes were so cold she felt the ice as he looked at her.

But she’d had enough of being pushed around for the day. If he wanted her gone, he could do her a favour and talk to the dean or the Council to make it happen.

With a defiant glare, she turned her back to him and continued wrestling with the training mat.

Chapter 17

Zeke hung his blazer up in his locker and then slammed it shut with more force than necessary. Derek and Myles didn’t say anything. They had been watching him since the assembly, and it was pissing him off. How was he supposed to think like this? How was he supposed to prepare?

“Maybe you shouldn’t do this today. Take your aggression out somewhere else instead of on the poor First Years,” Derek said finally.

He gave Derek a look as he walked over to the fridge to get a bottle of water to cool himself down, and his friend had the good sense to look down. A challenge was the last thing he needed right now. His body was so wired up that he felt like he would explode. He hadn’t been able to concentrate in any lesson because this situation was not like anything he had ever dealt with.

Derek was probably right.

But he needed to let out some steam, and letting Shadow go for a run was out of the question. His only option was to punch something, and the Training Centre was the only place where this was permitted.

“You’ve been acting dickish since yesterday,” Myles said as he played with an apple. “If you’re not going to tell us why you went to the party, at least tell us if you pissed someone off so we can watch our backs.”

“I already answered that question,” he pointed out as he walked over to the table to pick up his gym bag.

As future leaders, they had their own dressing room. It came in handy sometimes when he wanted privacy, but Derek and Myles had stuck to him like flies since the assembly. He just wanted to fucking breathe. Was that too much to ask for?

He had even skipped lunch to come to the Training Centre early, hoping they would leave him alone.

“I need to talk to Coach to prepare for the lesson. I’ll see you later.”

He was relieved when they didn’t follow him out. He needed to see the coach, but the conversation he intended to have was not for Derek and Myles’ ears.

As the most advanced student, they had given him extra duties in his third year. They told him to help train the first years, and part of him wondered if they were just sick of him sending his classmates to the infirmary. It didn’t matter to him then; he hadbeen proud of that achievement. But this year, it just felt like a kick in the nuts.

How the hell was he supposed to train the first years if the human was still there?

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