Page 95 of Ava: Part Two

“Trust me,” he said as he stood and walked over to his clothes. “You’re my mate now. They’ll know not to mess with you.”

“I’m still human and an Omega. They’ll find a way,” Ava sighed.

It sounded like she was speaking from experience. If Shadow hadn’t been so sated, he was sure that maniac would have been demanding they hunt whoever had made her feel like this.

It didn’t take long for him to dress, and this time, he packed up their spoiled, discarded picnic and the blanket he had taken his mate on. That made him grin again, despite knowing that it was true they were about to walk into a lot of shit.

“We’ll go shower and change at home first,” he suggested as he took her hand.

There was no resistance at all. He hadn’t thought a mate would make him feel like this, like a brand new man, but as he led Ava back through the woods, he felt lighter than he had ever felt. The change in him was so extreme that for a moment, he wondered if that would be good or bad, especially when they had to face the Council in the future.

By the time they walked out of the woods into his backyard, he had decided he didn’t give a shit. Ava was his.

His grin grew, even when he sensed her father was waiting in the house with Derek and Myles. There would be no way to hide what they had just done.

He would have warned her, but he wanted everyone to know. And Ava would have to get used to it as soon as possible because they would all know.

They all came out of the living room the moment he and Ava walked in through the back door. Ava tensed beside him when their gazes all landed on her. Her hair was still dripping wet, she hadn’t buttoned her shirt correctly, and there was a mark on her shoulder barely covered by her hair.

She was embarrassed, and he was sorry about that. But he just couldn’t stop grinning.

Derek and Myles smiled the moment they realised what he had done. The man beside them, the huge Alpha who Shadow would have wanted to challenge had he not still been in his post-mating bliss, was not smiling. He was livid. He could feel that anger blast him from the other side of the hallway.

But he still couldn’t stop grinning.

“I swear, I’m not trying to be disrespectful,” he told Ava’s father.

But nothing in the world would stop him grinning right now.

“Ava, go and make yourself presentable,” Ava’s father said. “The dean has called a meeting with me about your behaviour.”

Except that. That made his grin drop off his face.

“She did nothing wrong. I’ll come with you.”

“You’ve done enough, Mr Michelson,” Alpha Morgan growled.

Ava flinched and then rushed towards the stairs. He waited until she had gone all the way up, and her footsteps rushed in the hallway above them before turning to the man who had raised such a stubborn daughter.

“We will discuss this later,” Alpha Morgan growled before he turned back to the living room.

“Dude, you’ll be in so much shit when your dad finds out,” Myles started, and then a slow smile appeared on his face, “but I’m glad you’ve finally got your girl.”

And then the grin returned.

Ava Morgan was his mate. And there was nothing anybody could do about that.

Chapter 61

ThedrivetotheAdministration block was the most awkward thing Ava had ever lived through. And that included that one time in high school when a bunch of wolves had taken her clothes and all the towels in the locker room while she had been showering after gym class. Not a single person had come to her aid when she’d shouted for what felt like hours, including the teachers with their super-sensitive hearing.

She’d had to wait until after lessons, when she had assumed the students had gone home, to try to find something to wear in one of the classrooms. Only the school hadn’t been quite as empty as she’d thought. She’d barely snuck out of the locker room when the students had filed out of the classrooms. Dozens of them laughing at her as she stood naked in the hallway. Nudity meant nothing to them, but because she always hid her body, they used that to bully her.

She had all her bits hanging out and had been laughed at for weeks, but that embarrassment was nothing compared to sitting next to her dad when he knew what she had done.

“What aren’t you telling me, Ava?” Alpha Roland asked quietly.

“I... Dad, I don’t...”

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