Page 31 of Ava: Part One

Her heart almost stopped when she saw the woman sitting with Ezekiel. She was so close to him that she was practically on his lap! When she whispered something in his ear and then pulled his head down to kiss him, something in her wanted to go over there and rip her off him. She couldn’t understand that; it was a wave of jealousy so intense that it knocked some sense back into her. Ezekiel was nothing to her. It didn’t matter that he had sniffed her and made her body crave his touch. She didn’t want him. That girl was welcome to him.

Wolves were horny beasts, so she was not surprised that he had a girlfriend. For all she knew, he had hundreds of them. He was good-looking and arrogant, a typical ‘bad boy’, so it was safe to assume that some crazy girls would throw themselves all over him. She didn’t want any part of that.

Even after she told herself that, she carried on watching them. She only looked away once she realised Ezekiel was watching her, too. His eyes were wide open while his lips were on his girlfriend’s.

Once she got another breakfast tray, she chose a table as far away as possible from Ezekiel and made sure she sat with her back to them.

“Mind if I sit?”

She smiled when she saw Emily standing next to her.

“Of course not,” she smiled, glad to have something else to think about.

She moved her tray so Emily could put hers down opposite her, and then she smiled at her as she started eating.

“You like your food,” Emily stated when she looked at her plate. “I’ve never met a human who can eat like that, especially the females.”

“You’ve met humans? What are they like in person?”

She had always been fascinated with all the humans she saw on TV or in her magazines, and going to college with them had been her dream ever since it became clear she wasn’t a wolf. She wanted a place where she belonged, to be like everyone else.

“You’ve never met any?” Emily asked with a raised brow.

“Not that I can remember,” she sighed as she continued eating.

She didn’t know Emily well enough to talk about anything so personal, and a room full of sensitive ears was not the place to talk about it anyway.

“I didn’t get a chance to talk to you again after...”

Emily’s voice trailed off. When Ava looked up from her food, the Omega was looking somewhere behind her. She paled and then looked down at her food. Ava knew without looking who the cause of this was. She shook her head and continued with her food. She would not give Ezekiel another moment of her time.

So she coaxed Emily into talking about other things. It was nice to do that instead of sitting in silence all the time.

“It’s nice to talk to someone. I’m alone in my dorm, so I don’t have anyone to talk to after classes,” she admitted after wiping her face.

It wouldn’t do her any good, though, because unless she actually went back to her dorm for a change of clothes, she would stink of eggs and juice the whole day.

“I’d give anything to be alone,” Emily mumbled, and then she smiled as she gathered her things and stood. “I’ll see you at training.”

She didn’t know why, but she felt Emily had much more she wanted to talk about. She shrugged, picked up her tray, and took it back to the service table. Besides that incident at the beginning, breakfast had not been as bad as she had expected.

She didn’t look back in Ezekiel’s direction a single time as she made her way out of the hall and toward the dean’s office.

He would hear her out today. She was not doing four years of bloody needlework!

Chapter 23

“But, sir, if you ask any of my teachers and the coach, they’ll tell you the same thing. I’m human. You can smell that I’m human,” she argued.

“Miss Morgan, I told you this yesterday,” the dean said as he flipped through his paperwork. “What the Council says goes.”

“They made a mistake,” she growled.

Of course, her growl was ineffective because she was human.

It made the dean stop what he was doing and look at her sharply. His eyes glowed blue, and he growled at her—a real, hair-raising, threatening growl.

Shit. Her heart started pounding, but she calmed it down as she looked at her shoes. She had completely forgotten who she was talking to.

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