Page 69 of Ava: Part One

The doctor looked at him sternly as Ava stirred on the table.

“We have no time for these juvenile games. Please take your friend out of here and tell her the next time she comes here, I’ll have to report her to the dean.”

He was still speechless long after the doctors left him in the examination room. He sniffed the air again, and yes, Ava was still very human. So how had she healed so quickly? He was willing to bet Claire was still trying to recover from her wounds, and she was a wolf.

Ava didn’t wake up. She looked like she was peacefully sleeping now, as she had that night he sat in her hospital room. Her heartbeat had returned to normal.

He saw a pile of blankets on the counter and picked one up before carefully wrapping it around Ava and carrying her back out of the infirmary.

How long had he been in there? Half an hour?

Maybe the healing potion worked faster on humans because it wasn’t meant for them.

“What happened? Won’t they see her?” Derek asked as he opened the backdoor for him

The back seat was full of her blood. He paused as he took it all in. That was a lot of blood. He looked down at Ava’s sleeping face. She was very pale, and that was the only indication that she had lost all of that blood.

“They saw her. She’s fine.”

What else could he say? He had no idea what the fuck just happened.

Once they got back home, he carried her straight to his room and placed her on his bed. She looked right there. He knew it was the bond talking, but he didn’t have the energy to fight it tonight.

He unwrapped the blanket he had been given to cover himself and then pulled a pair of shorts from his drawers.

And then he got on the bed behind Ava, carefully pulling her into his arms. The scent of her blood was still all over her when he buried his nose in her neck and took her scent in. But it didn’t rile him up as much as it would have any other day.

Because she was in his arms.

Where Shadow said she belonged.

And for the first time in a long time, he closed his eyes and slept.

Chapter 49

The bed felt so comfortable that Ava snuggled in further when she slowly started to wake. She couldn’t remember the last time she slept so well. It felt like she’d been hit with a dose of magic to get rid of all her tiredness and worry.

She wriggled a little more under the covers. And then froze.

She opened her eyes, which widened when she saw the unfamiliar room in the early morning light. And that meant the warm, hard wall that was currently spooning her was indeed another person.

Her heart pounded out of her chest as she shot out of the bed and turned around, and then horror filled her when she realised she was standing in front of Ezekiel with no top on. She covered her bra quickly.

Why was she in his bed?

Ezekiel was leaning on his elbow as if he had been watching her sleep. As if he had let her wriggle against him on purpose. With his hair tousled and his shirtless chest exposed, he took her breath away. If there was ever a person blessed by the Goddess, it was this man. Every inch of him seemed to have been moulded when she had been in a very generous mood.

With great difficulty, she ripped her eyes away from that perfection to meet the amber gaze.

“Why was I in your bed?” she asked, her voice shaky.

“Because you’re safer right next to me,” Ezekiel answered.

His voice was husky with sleep, and it did things to her insides that weakened her knees. What was it with this man?

His words slowly penetrated her heated brain.

Safer?

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