Page 2 of Ava: Part Three

He stormed out to the front of the house and saw Jared standing across the road from his driveway. Out of his boundary but still close enough to make him want to rip him apart.

"I didn't tell those Omegas to make that food," Jared said quickly.

"And you've risked your life to come here and tell me that?" he growled.

"I need you to know what happened today."

"I'll hear it from my mate. Leave."

Before he lost control of himself. Shadow was all for his plan to kill that bastard; he was already drooling as he watched the wolf in front of them.

"Your father commanded me to kill her and then wait over her body for you to find me," Jared said, ignoring what he told him.

He growled, and Jared quickly lowered his gaze. The cockiness from the beginning of the semester seemed to have disappeared. Jared looked like a shell of his old self. But that wouldn't stop what was coming to him.

"I was going to do it. I couldn't stop myself," Jared continued. "I stepped into your house, I had my fucking claws out, I was going to..."

He growled again.

"Ava stopped me," Jared continued.

"What?"

Jared looked up and met his gaze.

"Ava used her Alpha command to stop me."

Ava had commanded an Alpha?

"And then the next thing I knew, she put me in the basement, and she went and beat the shit out of your dad."

What did this mean? Her wolf showed up when she was in danger?

"I knew from the beginning that she wasn't an Omega," Jared said, pulling him out of his thoughts. "And I gave her this cream to help her heal, but when she came to see me the other day, it sounded like she expected it to work instantly, but that’s not how it works—"

"What are you doing?"

Jared stopped speaking.

"I told you to go, and you're still standing here talking to me like we're friends," he growled. "Don't stand in front of my house like an idiot. Fuck off."

He turned to walk back up his drive.

"I care about her, too, Zeke."

He turned back, his eyes glowing red and his muscles tensing as Shadow tried to force himself out.

"Go," he growled.

Jared left immediately, but it took him a moment to calm himself down. That was the last thing he wanted to hear, that his mate was friends with the man destined to die by his hand.

When he walked up to the door, Myles and Derek stood there, looking in the direction Jared had gone.

He knew they had heard that conversation, but if they had questions, he couldn't answer them. He didn't know how the hell it was possible that Ava's wolf hid that well. Especially from Shadow, her mate.

"I need to cook for my mate," he said as he walked past them and back into the house.

At the door to the kitchen, he stopped, and Derek and Myles stopped beside him.

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