Page 73 of Ava: Part Three

Chapter 43

Ava looked down at the stripes on her brand-new blazer. An Alpha. She had Alpha stripes.

Zeke came out of his dressing room, still adjusting his tie.

“Looking good, Alpha,” he said with a grin.

“This is so weird,” she muttered.

She’d become so used to wearing her plain blazer that the added stripes made it look like a different uniform.

“Get used to it,” Zeke said, dropping a kiss on her head as he pulled her into him and met her eyes in the mirror.

They looked like a power couple. She had never been one of the popular kids while growing up, so being with Zeke felt a little unreal. If only their problems were about jealous girls and deciding what clothes to wear to a party instead of the Council.

He was more content today, as she was. Being alone by the lake all night had done them some good, and she felt more hopeful that they could pull this off. It was probably the excess oxytocin in their bodies. She blushed as she looked away from her handsome mate and wished again that they had the usual problems.

Zeke grinned and then kissed her cheek before he released her.

“Samantha and Julie have cooked up another feast for you. I’m starving; let's go and eat in case we have to skip lunch.”

She'd smelled the food while they had still been in the shower. It was Samantha who’d met them at the door when they had returned not too long ago, and she’d had the parcel from the dean containing her new uniforms and paperwork for her change of classes.

She heard voices before she reached the bottom of the stairs and realised it was Derek arguing with...Samantha?

“Seriously, who’s Omega are you?” Derek said.

“You have to wait for Alpha Ava,” Samantha said.

That...That sounded so odd.

And the fact that the Omega was speaking back at all was surprising. She looked at Zeke with a raised brow as they walked towards the dining room.

“But I’m starving, and you’ve cooked everything,” Derek added. “Why did you have to cook everything?”

“Because I don’t know what she likes yet.”

“She eats everything. You’ve seen her,” Myles said with a snort.

When they stopped at the door, she saw that Samantha and Julie were actually guarding the food.

She couldn’t believe they were still cooking for her after what she had done. Were they not scared? And it could have been any one of them, instead of Emily, murdered by the vampire.

“Good morning, Alpha,” Julie said when she saw them and lowered her head.

Zeke nudged her, and she realised that greeting was meant for her.

“Oh...Good morning,” she said awkwardly.

“I hope you enjoy your breakfast,” Samantha said, finally stepping away from guarding the table.

“I’ve told you guys to stop doing that,” she said when she saw the spread.

The food looked amazing. She drooled a little, and her stomach grumbled loudly.

“The first shift takes it out of you. You’ll need plenty of rest and nourishment for a while,” Samantha explained.

She didn’t tell them she’d felt perfectly fine after a nap as Zeke led her to a chair. It was only after she sat that Derek and Myles took their sets, too. She could still feel their nervousness without her wolf lending her a hand. And then she could feel Samantha and Julie’s nervousness even though they had cooked the feast to impress her. Maybe she had been too hasty to assume they were not scared of her.

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