Ava by L.G.Savage (HeartBreak)

Chapter 44

It had been a strange morning.

Ava had seen people whispering about her every time she had passed them, and no one had shoved or pushed her yet. It felt a lot like just before Claire knocked her out the first time. They would whisper and then look at her or go still as if they were mind–linking each other. Then, they would get a certain excited look that made her worry. What were they planning now? The fact that she had yet to see Claire was worrying in itself, but now she was being paranoid about everything.

Instead of being angry as usual, she was jumpy. She had more

re needle pricks on her fingers than usual because she couldn’t concentrate on anything in Needlework, and she probably had 10 refold the table napkins a hundred times in Housekeeping. And for a change, she didn’t get any detentions

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By lunchtime, she was a wreck. She couldn’t handle going to the dining hall to face the crowds even though she was starving, so she hid in one of the bathrooms

She was being a coward. Yesterday, she’d finished the day on such a high that she’d felt invincible. Now, she was jumping at every little sound when nothing had happened to make her feel like this.

Ava splashed some water on her face and looked at her reflection in the mirror. She looked paler than usual, so her freckles were more prominent. Her eyes were too wide and bright, as if she was on something, and she could hear her heart pounding in her chest constantly. She couldn’t calm down.

She

decided to go to the training centre early instead of hiding the rest of the lunch break. At least after that, she would be safe in detention and then Jared would pick her up.

She was drying her hands when the bathroom door opened, and the last person she wanted to see walked in.

“Did you really think you could hide from me, human?” Claire sneered as she strolled in. “I can smell you from miles away

in after her, but one remained by the door, blocking the only exit and

of witnesses. At least in class,

as she kept her gaze on the floor. She wasn’t going to intimidate her now, not

just because you’re stringing one Alpha along by his balls and another Alpha falling all

back wall and the panic started to rise

anybody to help me,”

a filthy human like you, even if his pack

done nothing!” she said in a

attack started to take its hold on her. She felt lightheaded as she struggled for breath. The last time she’d had an attack, she had imagined Ezekiel

voice asked her when she had ever needed anyone to rescue her, but she shoved it away. It was different here. None of these people knew or

keep getting back up to your feet every time I take you down, but mark my words. I will end you. I will make sure you never get up again,” Claire

now was not an option. She had to scream so someone could hear her. She opened her mouth to try that, but her voice stuck in her throat. The more she struggled to draw air into her lungs, the worse her vnion became. Pressure built up in her head, making it hard

something she had never felt before. It felt like her veins were on fire, and combined with her burning lungs

something like you here. Look at you,” Claue chuckled. “I haven’t

room laughed and called her pathetic. Their laughter echoed in her head as if they were speaking from a distance or

a little fish in her small pack, and now she

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to bubble

her whole body started to tremble. Only the wall behind her held

was going to die

in her veins spread to her limbs. The pressure was too much in her head and her body. She had never had a panic attack this bad before she knew instantly that this one

Then, the air shifted.