Ava by L.G.Savage (HeartBreak)

Chapter 40

Zeke went in the library before sunrise the following Lay. Not that it mattered. He hadn’t slept for Stat, he couldn’t even remember now. The librarian seemed surprised to see him, but she didn’t comment when he walked over to a shelf to start browsing

The library was open twenty–four hours a day to allow students in kerge up with their salies on top of their training schedules. It was the biggest Alructure on campus, with a vast atrium structure and several flours around it. It was usually full of students after training, but at tlöstime, he known it would be empty. Most people were still asleep or resting before the start of another gruelling schedule. Lucky bastards.

The night after Ava had been attacked, he had gour back to wait in the woods behind her room, switching between hoping Claire and her friends. would come back and hoping he could get into Ava’s room to finish what he had started. He’d only gone home iner he had followed Ava to her duties and made sure she had gone in.

waiting to

When Ava had left the dorm, the sum hadn’t even risen yet, and she hadn’t looked behind her a single time. The Jumman knew Claire hurt her, but there hadn’t been an ouner of fear in the air. What the hell was wrong with that girl? Caddin‘ she sense the danger all around her.

Then, when he had been set to follow her back to her or after detention, that stand had been waiting for her. Breakfast together twice in an and now what? They were living together?

Shadow growled in his head, but he put his mental walls back up. Last night he had probably hail the worst night since all this shit started. Ava was testing his limits in a way he had never been tested before. He couldn’t even blame Shadow for its because he was the one who wanted in follow them. He was the one who’d wanted to make sure fand delict touch her. He was the one who’l born on her balonny like a pervert, Sering them together had almost broken hint, and that wasn’t right. He didn’t want Ava like that. He didn’t want the bond..

That shut ended today,

He turned back to walk to the middle of the atrium, to the librarian’s desk and pulled a piece of paper from his pocket, Miss Donovan was a vampire who had been the librarian here probably since the old building had been buih. She knew everything about everything and would know that one of the books on his list had nothing to do wali any of his subjects.

“I need these books and others on those subjects,” he told her.

who didn’t reek of fear when he spoke to them. She took the paper from him without a word and started typing something on her

are restricted, but I’ll tell

something out and handed it to him, and it was just his luck that the ones he needed were restricted. He frowned

about that business that happened during the break?”

in Dominic’s nest, but news like this was bound to have travelled. This was the perfect excuse he needed to find out what was happening between him

lied. “I need to find a way to solve this without more bloodshed. My father’s expecting a report this weekend, and I’ve

truth. On any other person, her allure would have been irresistible. He would have had to tell her

proud of you for trying. You’ll make

left umaid, but he knew that was what she had

bring you some of those books. Hut you must be careful with them and can’t check them out. They belong to

was so grateful he could have kissed the older woman if he

face off instead.

you” he said while

room to wait. There were several of these rooms on each floor for

private square to study. They were usually buser when the exams were neater, Init so rarly the semester, they were hardly used. Tables and chairs were in the muddle, and a couple of computers were set up along

if he died there was nothing he could do aluat this? What if it was permanent? He could

opened, and Misi Donovan walked in with a few heavy books. They looked ancient, and

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