Page 28 of Ava: Part Two

He shook his head as his nose picked up her scent, heading towards the First-Year block.

“Humans are so confusing,” he said instead of answering the question.

“Are you sure she’s human?” Myles asked.

His Gamma was leaning against the rails outside the centre, hands in his pockets.

“What’s that supposed to mean?” he asked.

“She’s been pretty messed up a few times, and the last time she healed in the same time it took you to heal. She survived the forest. She was practically comatose because you were in pain, and she took us all down with her with all her emotions. And she was drawn to you when we couldn’t sense you at all. I’ve never seen any humans do that,” Myles shrugged as he pushed himself off and came to stand with them.

“It’s the bond,” he explained. “It’s... I can’t even explain how it feels.”

“Well, whatever it is, you need to figure it out before your dad finds out about it and does something to stop it,” Myles said. “She’s going to bring all of us down, Zeke. Then how the hell will we get our revenge?”

He turned to his friend with a frown.

“Nothing is going to stop that from happening,” he promised. “And nothing is going to take Ava away from me. You have a problem with this, and rightly so, but if I can’t trust you with Ava, you need to tell me now. I have enough to worry about.”

“Of course you can trust me,” Myles said. “But can we trust you to think of the good of the pack? We haven’t even done anything about the vampires, and we’re almost out of time.”

With the mate his father had chosen for him, he would have been able to answer that easily. With Ava, his true mate, it seemed her welfare came above all else.

“Of course, you can trust me,” he said as he started walking towards his lessons. “I’ll speak to the Alpha about the vampires; don’t worry about that.”

He couldn’t help feeling guilty because that was all a load of bullshit. His only focus right now was marking Ava as soon as he could, so that would make him a shit Alpha when the time came.

Chapter 18

Avawenttoherlessons that day and the day after with all her anger fuelling her. She was grateful that the other students left her alone since that display by Zeke and his pack in the cafeteria the other day, but even that was pissing her off.

So she had begged them to stop making her life hell and they didn’t listen, but one word out of Ezekiel’s mouth and suddenly even the teachers weren’t saying anything to her? In training, the coach hadn’t insulted her a single time, even though she could see in his beady little eyes that he was itching to do so. Then Ezekiel informed her that her detentions had been moved to allow her to train a little longer for the mocks. The dean had supposedly agreed. Bullshit. Utter bullshit.

When the coach blew his whistle to signal the end of the session, he told them to try not to die during the mocks and left the room.

She shook her head as she headed to grab some water.

“Ava.”

She turned to watch Zeke approach. It was funny how she had become less formal in her mind, but when she was calling his name now, she always said ‘Master Ezekiel’. He didn’t like that. Tough.

“Yes, Master Ezekiel,” she answered.

She lowered her eyes, but not before seeing his jaw clench.

“We’re using the same training room as yesterday,” he said.

“If you’ve got me out of detention, I don’t see why I shouldn’t do my duties here before I come and train. I’m an Omega, just like everyone else here,” she said.

She was so livid about that. Detention was the only place she could have seen Mr Patrick, but Zeke had ruined everything.

“We talked about this—”

“Oh yes, that’s right. I’m sorry, Master. I’ll do as I’m told.”

She rolled her eyes as she threw her empty water bottle into the trash and started walking out of the training room. The halls were still full of students leaving their respective rooms, but they all moved out of her way as she approached. She would have loved to think that was because of her, that somehow they had seen that she wasn’t too weak to protect herself, but she knew it was because of the brooding, psychotic wolf walking behind her.

A few students were still in the small training room when she opened the door, and they all quickly exited.

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