Page 26 of Ava: Part Two

“I’m the one who’s sorry. I didn’t mean to...”

Her cheeks coloured more as she pointedly kept her gaze on the ceiling.

“I’ll go and shower, too, then we can grab a quick breakfast before we go training. You still need to pass the mocks,” Ezekiel said.

But he still didn’t move, and she could still feel his gaze burning into her.

“Are you a virgin, Ava?”

She hadn’t thought she could feel more embarrassed, but her cheeks were on fire. Ezekiel lifted himself onto his elbow and looked down at her. She risked a glance at him and had to look away straight away. His eyes were red, but she had still seen the burning need in them.

“I have to shower, Zeke,” she repeated.

He groaned, and then, without warning, he brought his lips down onto hers again. But this was a quick, hard kiss before he released her and rushed out of her room.

It took her a long time to compose herself long enough to leave her room and go to the bathroom. And when she was finally finished, she made sure no one was in the hallway before she rushed back to her room. The last thing she wanted to do right now was to face Ezekiel again. Her cheeks were still flushed as images of what had just happened flashed through her mind.

When she dressed in her training kit, carefully folded her uniform and placed it in her bag, she knew she couldn’t delay going downstairs any longer.

Ezekiel was talking to Derek and Myles in the kitchen as they prepared breakfast. Did the Omegas not make anything for them today? She wanted to ask what had happened but couldn’t look Ezekiel in the eyes long enough to talk to him.

“Morning, Ava,” Derek said.

“Morning.”

Did they know? Had they heard her? Her cheeks coloured again as she looked away from the Beta.

Zeke placed a plate full of food on the island in front of her. She mumbled her thanks without looking at him and took it to the kitchen table. The wolves continued talking as they brought their plates to the table and sat with her. She was glad they didn’t pay much attention to her as they discussed issues with their pack, so she let her mind wander to what Mr Patrick had told her. She needed to speak to him as soon as possible.

By the time she and Zeke drove to the training centre and he started her with her warm-ups, things seemed to be almost back to normal. Ezekiel kept it professional, as he had the day before, but she felt her body react to the contact every time she touched him.

It was only as they were finishing off that Ezekiel turned the tables and pinned her down with his whole body. Immediately, she was back in that place, forgetting everything else, craving his touch as if her life depended on it as he brought his lips down to hers. It was impossible to fight this. Her legs wrapped around him as he pressed into her and groaned against her lips.

“I fucking knew it!”

Jared’s voice made her rip her lips from Zeke’s to look at the wolf who had somehow snuck up on them. And then the growl that came from Zeke’s lips was more menacing than any she had ever heard from him. He hadn’t snapped Derek’s or the librarian’s necks, but as Ezekiel got off her, she was sure he was about to murder someone else.

Chapter 17

Zekedidn’tknowhowit happened.

One second he was in pure ecstasy for the second time that morning, and the next, he had the asshole Jared by his neck on the floor, about to use all his strength to try to snuff his useless life out.

Jared’s scent in the same room as Ava’s messed him up. Shadow took control, and his claws extended as they gripped Jared’s neck. He could smell the blood, and that made Shadow’s bloodlust unmanageable. There was nothing he could do to stop what was coming.

He wanted Jared in pieces. He wanted to snap his neck and rip his carcass to shreds.

But Ava was screaming, distracting him from satisfying his needs. Her fear clogged his nostrils, so much of it that it was enough to make him move his focus from the wolf he had pinned down to his terrified human. But Ava wasn’t running away from him as she made all that noise; she was running towards him.

And then she slid in between his body and Jared’s, trying to use her meagre weight to push him off and prise his fingers from Jared’s neck. She put her little fragile human body between two Alpha wolves.

His vision cleared once he understood what she was doing. She was saving the bastard's life. The bastard who’d almost had her killed.

“No! Zeke, please let him go,” Ava screamed.

Her heart was racing, and her fear had increased.

“Move, Ava,” he commanded.

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