Page 52 of Ava: Part Three

The magic around him tightened its hold the precise moment he felt Ava’s distress.

“Now, now, Mr Michelson. Take a deep breath and relax. It will be over very soon.”

Shadow howled in his head as Ava’s despair increased. He fought against the magic, but there was no give in the tight binds. The more he tried to struggle, the tighter the hold became. He was frozen in the spot. His claws extended, and his face stretched as he tried to shift.

“What are you doing to her?” he growled.

“Nothing. She’s perfectly fine. But you and Ava will have a choice to make after today, and I expect to have a very positive meeting with you tomorrow.”

He felt her pain. She was in so much pain that it slashed his body and made him howl out loud. What were they doing to her?

“Leave her alone. I will give you whatever you want. Ava is innocent.”

“She’s hardly innocent, Mr Michelson. She has blood on her hands.”

Shadow tried to force a shift again, but their restraints tightened more. The red haze appeared over his vision as he finally looked up at the man responsible for all the shit they were going through. The man he was going to kill with his bare hands the moment he could.

But he knew better than to say that or even think about it.

“It’s almost over,” Mr Hansson said.

There was a smile on his face as if he had finally done what he had come here to do.

The magic loosened, and he shot up immediately. His only thought was getting to Ava. He didn’t give a shit that he knocked over the guard standing at the door or that the ones guarding outside trained their weapons on him when he burst through the Administration building doors. He used Shadow’s speed to get to the Training Centre and followed his nose.

There was the scent of blood in the air. So much blood.

But none of it was Ava’s.

Students ran down the hallways towards him to leave the building. The fear coming from them almost knocked him back. Another of the Council’s demonstrations? Had they killed all the Omegas this time?

He shoved open the training room door and then stopped in his tracks. There were injured and lifeless wolves all over the floor. Blood everywhere. Carnage. And right in the middle of it was the other half of him. The woman that the Moon Goddess had tied to him for better or worse.

Ava.

She was huge, black and beautiful.

Blood dripped from her fangs, and her fur was soaked with it.

She turned to face him and lowered her head. She showed her bloody fangs in a snarl that made the hair on his arms rise.

And her eyes...

They were red and full of rage.

Chapter 31

AvarealisedthatDerek,Myles and Jared were backing away from her as if she was the monster, not the wolf she had protected them from. She looked back at the damage she had done. Not all of them were dead, but...

With her anger gone, her mind cleared.

But there were too many scents and too many emotions in the room. Too much noise. She could hear everything. People talking at once. People screaming. Leaves blowing in the wind. Cars. Heartbeats. The harsh breathing of the students who were too terrified to run from the room. The dying breaths of others. She could see the tiniest splatter of blood on the wall. She could smell that somebody had pissed themselves.

Everything tumbled down on her in a confusing avalanche as she backed away from her friends. They were terrified.

“It takes a special kind of person to kill the same people two times. I’m very proud of you, Ava,” Councillor Andrei said.

They had done this.

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