Page 2 of Ava: Part Two

She filled a tray up and then looked around for an empty table somewhere in the back, away from where she had come to learn was the Alpha section. Emily was sitting with a group of Omegas. The backstabber put her gaze down the moment she saw her. She couldn’t understand that. They were both Omegas; Emily knew she couldn’t do anything to her, but no one would care if she did. No one ever listened to anything they had to say. But looking at her former friend brought all her anger up again. She wanted to punch the wolf in the face. She wanted to hurt Emily like she had been hurt in the village.

But this school wouldn’t allow that. She would always have to suppress her urge to defend herself.

Several Omegas from her class were sitting where Emily was, so she guessed that was the Omega section. She made her way there, her eyes on Emily the whole time until she found an empty table behind her. Maybe Emily had been ordered to do what she did because she was an Omega, but was she that mindless that she could do something so heartless without thought? Was she so weak? She could have stopped what had happened if she had just said something.

She roughly stuck a fork into her sausages as if they were Emily’s neck, and the sound made Emily flinch.

“What did she do to you?”

She had been so engrossed in watching Emily that she hadn’t seen the three wolves walk to her table with their trays. Her eyes widened as she looked around the room and then directly at the Alpha. And then they widened further when she realised what she was doing in front of witnesses.

“Nothing,” she mumbled.

“So why do you look like you want to kill her?” Ezekiel asked.

Emily flinched again at his words. Maybe that was what she was scared of, after all—that a dangerous wolf would come after her for her part in this. Emily had already disappeared when Zeke had come to save her; he wouldn’t know her part in it.

She didn’t answer him. The Alpha sighed and then sat beside her while the other two sat opposite. She could feel everyone’s eyes burning into them, and a few of the Omegas stood to leave. She had ruined their breakfast. She didn’t need to be a wolf to know they were scared of Ezekiel.

But how was she supposed to tell a wolf who had come back home with blood all over him to stay away from her? Was she supposed to keep quiet and accept everything just because she was so scared of making him angry?

“Eat,” Ezekiel said.

So she picked up her cutlery and started eating just because she didn’t have the guts to tell him to piss off. She had to find another way out of the academy quickly.

Chapter 2

ZekewatchedAvawalkinto the First Year block before he turned and joined Derek and Myles.

“Are you sure about this?” Myles asked.

He wasn’t sure about anything except the fact that Ava belonged to him.

“The pack might tell your father. We don’t know who his spies are yet,” Derek added. “The fact that she’s human—”

‘She’s still mine,’ he said in the mindlink with a growl.

‘And we accept that. We witnessed the bond, remember,’ Derek said. ‘I’m just saying if we don’t have a plan yet, we’ve just put a giant target on her back.’

Ava always had a target on her back, but at least now she had his protection. Only the really foolish would even dare.

He stopped walking when he saw Jared coming out of his car. He and Shadow watched him as he looked around and then stopped his gaze on them. Shadow growled.

Jared’s eyes glowed in anger before he turned away and started walking towards his classes. Shadow didn’t like that. That wolf had sent his minions to spy on Ava, and then he dared turn his back as if he had done nothing wrong.

“Easy, Zeke,” Myles said. “You’ve just got out. We don’t want to go through that shit again anytime soon.”

But he could feel Myles’ anger as well as they watched the arrogant coward walk into the building.

“Let's get to class before anything happens,” Derek suggested.

They started walking again and had to stop when someone called his name.

“Mr Michelson.”

He almost rolled his eyes as he turned back. Shadow had never liked the dean simply because he didn’t like submitting to anyone, but he now despised the man for throwing him into Isolation. Sure, he had admitted what he had done, but Alpha Russell should have given him the benefit of the doubt because of his otherwise spotless record.

“Good morning, Alpha Russell,” he said as the man approached.

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