Page 31 of Ava: Part Three

“Stay the fuck away from my mate,” he growled.

Myles stopped and tensed. He didn’t mean to scare his friends, but he would kill them if they went to his mate right now.

“She’s fine,” he growled again.

He continued his pacing and looked up at the clock on the wall. The time hadn’t moved much since he had last looked at it.

“We’re going to have to go now,” he told his friends.

“What do you mean? It’s too early. All the regular patrols are out. There are several of them in this street alone,” Myles said.

“If I wait any longer, we’ll be stuck here.”

He picked up his bag. He could tell his friends were wary of approaching him, so he regained control over the beast and pulled them both into a hug.

“I don’t know what will happen from here, but I need you guys to take care of yourselves,” he told them.

And then he looked at Myles.

“And I promise you, I will still get Jared. The moment he steps out of this academy, he’s mine,” he told him.

“Please just wait until midnight,” Derek said.

“Ava is... I can’t,” he answered as he felt the pull again.

He left his friends in the basement and headed out the back way, well aware that that could be the last time he would see them. As he sensed his surroundings, he realised Myles had been right about the patrols. There was more at the front today than any other day. Were they already anticipating trouble?

He felt the pull again, stronger than before, as he turned his senses towards his mate’s dorm. Shadow took control, but he knew even the beast wouldn’t resist for long. It had been easier for them to handle her anger.

Without wasting more time, he jogged into the woods and headed to his mate. He waited until a team of guards passed her dorm before he sped up and came out of the forest just in front of her window.

But Ava’s scent...

It messed with his head straight away.

By the time he pushed open the useless window and climbed into her room, he knew that, once again, his plans were in jeopardy.

Ava lay on her bed, sweating and writhing, and so irresistible as the beginning of her heat washed through her body. Her scent filled him—vanilla, a hint of orange and no trace of human. None at all.

“Zeke,” she moaned.

He clenched his fists and closed his eyes. They had to at least try to escape, or they would be stuck in this room for days.

“We’re going to go now, Ava,” he said hoarsely. “Get dressed quickly and meet me in the woods.”

“Right now?” Ava asked.

“You have two minutes until the guards come back around. Pack a small bag. Hurry.”

It took all the control he had in his body to turn away from his mate in her time of need. He had to remind himself that this was a matter of life and death. But when Ava finally joined him with her backpack on and tendrils of her hair sticking to her sweaty face, he knew they would not get very far.

He pulled the vials from his bag and gave her one of them.

“Protective spell. It will mask us for a few hours,” he told her. “Drink it all.”

Even breathing through his nose was not helping. Ava’s need was all around him, inside him.

Once they’d consumed the potions, he felt the slight burn that told him it was working. The guards wouldn’t catch their scents, but it didn’t mask his mate’s scent from him.

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