Page 48 of Ava: Part Two

She stood in the middle of the small room, breathing heavily and her eyes full of need. She was sweaty and covered in other people’s blood, but this was the sexiest picture he had ever seen.

He didn’t know if he moved or she launched herself at him, but his lips were on hers seconds later. He picked her up so she could wrap her legs around him as he backed her against the wall.

Her scent... It filled his head. It fueled the fire in his veins. It made everything a jumbled mess. The only clear thought in his head was that he was going to mark Ava.

He ground himself against her, and she made the sexiest little sounds. She was ready for him. All he needed to do was separate himself from her long enough to take their clothes off, and then he could mark her for the whole world to see. Leave his scent on her. In her.

When he finally lifted his lips from hers and grabbed onto the hem of her t-shirt, her hands covered his and stopped him.

He frowned and looked into her eyes. Why was she stopping him? This was inevitable; she knew it.

“Stop,” she whispered. “Fire alarm.”

It was only then that his foggy mind registered the loud ringing noise. The longer he heard it, the clearer his mind became.

He looked around the dark, dusty room for a second before his gaze returned to the woman in his arms. The human, the virgin who had no clue what was happening between them.

What the fuck was he doing?

Chapter 32

“Thatwasaveryimmature thing to do. You’re not children! I will not tolerate such undignified behaviour in my academy.”

Zeke only half-listened to what the dean was saying. All he could smell was Ava; all he could feel was Ava. He needed to go for a run to clear his mind before he ruined everything. Ava wasn’t ready for this. She would run a mile from him if he told her, and her running from him when they were in danger was the last thing he needed.

Last night, she’d almost died from whatever foolish thing she did, but his anger evaporated during her match as if it hadn’t existed. How could he have forgotten that there was someone among them who wanted her dead? How could he have easily forgotten about Claire and the Council? It was like he’d been mindless, stripped down to his primal nature to focus on one thing only.

‘...two days in Isolation, and believe me, I will find out who did it...’

The Fourth-Year fire assembly point was quite a distance from the First-Year one, but he could still hear Ava’s heartbeat. He was sure everyone could hear it, too. She was scared. Of him. Of what he had almost done with her. He couldn’t blame her. He’d almost taken her virginity in a dank little room without a care in the world about the consequences.

Something wasn’t right there. He’d felt this way about Ava since the day he had seen her, but while she’d been in that ring, everything had been magnified.

“...completely irresponsible for raising the fire alarm...”

‘You okay?’

He didn’t look at Myles as he shook his head. He wouldn’t be fucking okay until Ava was his and people stopped trying to kill her. But as his future Luna, they would want to kill her all the time.

Like they had killed his mother.

He had to stamp it out quickly before it went too far. His little human didn’t have a submissive bone in her body and would likely bring him trouble everywhere they went. Everyone would want to hurt her. It was the nature of a wolf not to bow down to anyone they thought was inferior, but they would all have to give Ava that respect once he claimed her.

But like they had done to his father when they killed his mate, his enemies would target her just to get to him.

His fists clenched and unclenched as he kept his gaze on the dean.

‘You need to get a grip on this, Zeke. I didn’t know if pulling the fire alarm would work, but we may not be so lucky next time. You two didn’t even notice that you were putting a show on for everyone.’

He clenched his jaw. He had no idea what happened in the arena, but he had likely put a bigger target on Ava’s back. He’d bet all his worldly possessions that his father would be aware of this incident before he even got home to call him.

“This has set the whole day back. You have an hour for lunch, and then the mock evaluations will resume. Dismissed.”

His peers started moving, but the dean remained where he had been standing in front of them. Alpha Russell’s gaze was cold and hard as it met his. It seemed he had fallen from the dean’s good graces, and it didn’t take a genius to figure out why. The whole school had seen whatever that shit was in the arena. They would have seen how hard he’d been and caught the scent of Ava’s arousal. Would they all start to figure things out now? Would they realise she was his true mate?

‘Take Ava home. I need a run,’ he told his pack before turning away from the dean and walking towards the woods.

‘Are you sure she needs protecting?’ Derek asked.

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