Page 13 of Ava: Part Two

"The Council members are coming here to check on some things. Take this somewhere more appropriate, Mr Michelson."

And then the woman walked out and left the door wide open.

"Shit," Ezekiel said under his breath.

She was still trying to calm herself and get over the embarrassment of being caught in such a compromising position when she started to walk out of the room.

"Ava," Ezekiel said.

"I was told I have to go back to training straight after my appointment," she said with a shaky breath without looking back.

Ava walked as quickly as she could out of the library without looking around. She never wanted to see that woman again in her life, but she was grateful for her. If she hadn't come in, who knew what she would be doing right now?

She wasn't that person, and no matter how much Ezekiel made her lose her head, she didn't want to be his plaything.

"Ava."

She carried on walking.

"Ava, listen to me," Ezekiel said. "Go home. We'll talk about this l—"

"I can't get any more detentions."

She wouldn't fall for that trick. Go home and what? So he could finish the job in his bed?

"If you don't go home and shower, everyone will know exactly what you've been doing. And with whom."

That made her stop in her tracks.

"Go home. I'll cover for you, but come back for your detention."

Her shoulders sagged as she changed direction and started the long walk towards Ezekiel's house. Things were already being said, and the last thing she wanted to do was confirm the rumours.

"You have more important things to worry about, girl. Focus," she said out loud.

Ezekiel was just a boy. There would be other boys. What she needed to worry about now was why the Council would say she belonged here in the first place.

Chapter 9

Zekeshoweredandchangedin his dressing room before he made his way to the beginners' training room.

He'd almost marked her on a desk in a public library. Without a care, like an idiot.

He could have killed her.

The whole reason he had taken her to one of the soundproofed study rooms was so he could ask her what happened with the Council members, but she'd been panicking, and one thing had led to another.

Instead of asking if she was going to get carted off for whatever part she had played in Claire's disappearance, he'd been thinking with his dick.

And now he'd spend hours torturing himself, not just because of his fears of the Council's next move but because he could still feel her all over him even though he had showered. What had his little mate done that Saturday? The dean said Claire and her friends had gone into town, but he had explicitly told Ava to wait for him. Had she actually gone to town, too?

He had tried to keep her name out of his head, but the Council had asked for her, anyway. What did they know? Were they about to drop a bombshell on his head?

The room quietened down considerably when he walked in. He ignored them all as he walked to where the coach was torturing a couple of wolves sparring at the back of the room.

"So glad you could join us," the coach said sarcastically.

He used to like this man. He used to have a lot of respect for Coach Baxter, but his opinion had changed because of how he treated Ava, even before he accepted that his fate was linked with the human’s. Maybe the coach had noticed, or he was just being a prick because he knew he had been in Isolation.

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