Page 23 of Ava: Part Two

“Where are you going?” she asked him quickly.

“Away from you. You can all leave. I expect I’ll be seeing you all tomorrow evening again,” Mr Patrick said with a shake of his head as he left the room.

She knew he would have disappeared the moment he walked out, so she didn’t bother rushing out after him.

“What an odd man,” Ezekiel said as he frowned at the door.

Then he turned to look at her questioningly.

“Did you see something?” he asked.

She shook her head and pushed the book aside before picking her bag up.

“Let’s go and get you fed, then,” Ezekiel said, already walking towards the door. “We have a lot to talk about.”

Yes. She had to tell him that they hadn’t got away with this after all. Her guilt returned over Claire’s fate as she followed him. She was a terrible person. She should have come clean to the Council straight away.

Chapter 15

“You’renothungry?”

Zeke had watched his little human push her food around her plate for a while. That wasn’t like her. She always ate, no matter what was going on.

“Not particularly,” Ava answered, looking up at him as she put her cutlery down.

She had chosen the seat furthest away from him again, and he and Shadow didn’t like that. But he couldn’t scare her away; he had to do this right.

‘We don’t have much time,’ Shadow reminded him.

Shadow was all for grabbing her and pinning her down. He had never been known for his patience, and that was more obvious now. But Ava was human; she would never understand Shadow’s nature.

“Want a beer?” he asked.

“No, thanks.”

“Do you even drink?” Derek asked as he ate.

Of the two of them, his Beta seemed to be trying to get to know Ava. Myles was eating silently, which wasn’t like him at all.

“Only when there aren’t people trying to kill me,” Ava snorted as she pushed her still-full plate away.

He watched her look at the Omegas hovering around the door like irritating insects and then back at her food. She clearly wanted to eat but was holding herself back.

“Are they bothering you?” he asked.

“No.”

It was a lie. Ava was uncomfortable, and if he had learned anything lately, it was that it wouldn’t take her long to speak her mind.

He patiently cut into the steak the Omegas had prepared and hadn’t even put it in his mouth when she spoke.

“I don’t understand why I’m sitting here and they’re standing over there. That’s some bullshit,” Ava muttered. “I’m an Omega, too.”

“They’re welcome to sit down and eat, but good luck getting them to do that,” he said as he put the steak into his mouth.

“Because that would be breaking the rules, and you know they won’t do that.”

He put his cutlery down and sighed as he looked at the trembling Omegas. He didn’t remember their names because he made it a point to avoid them and their stupid need to please him.

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