Chapter 49

The bed felt so comfortable that Ava snuggled in further when she slowly started to wake. She couldn’t remember the last time she slept so well. li feh like she’d been hit with a dose of magic to get rid of all her tiredness and worry.

She wriggled a little more under the covers. And then froze.

She opened her eyes, which widened when she saw the unfamiliar room in the early morning light. And that meant the warm, hard wall that was currently spooning her was indeed another per

Her heart pounded out of her chest as she shot out of the bed and turned around, and then horror filled her when she realised she was standing in front of Ezekiel with no top on. She covered her be quickly.

Why was she in his bed?

Ezekiel was leaning on his elbow as if he had been watching her sleep. As if he had let her wriggle against him on purpose. With his hair tousled and his shimless chest exposed, he took her breath away. If there was ever a person blessed by the Goddess it was this man. Every inch of him seemed to have been moulded when she had been in a very generous mood.

With great difficulty, she ripped her eyes away from that perfection to meet the amber gaze.

“Why was I in your bed?” she asked, her voice shaky.

“Because you’re safer right next to me.” Ezekiel answered.

His voice was husky with sleep, and it did things to her insides that weakened her knees. What was it with this marr

His

words wwwly penetrated her heated brain.

Safert

Everything came rushing back to her. Her heart hammered again as she moved lier arms from her bra to inspect her torso. There was absolutely nothing, not even a scratch. The only evidence there was that she wasn’t imagining things were the traces of blood that someone had wiped from her skin and the splashes on her bra

Claire had really done it. She had shifted and tried to kill her in front of witnesses,

All because what Her boyfriend had been making advances on her!

She covered herself again and met Ezekiel’s gaze head on, not even bothering to pretend she was submissive in any way. This was all his fanilt. “That’s not what I asked. Why was 1 in your bed?” she repeated coldly.

I already answered that question, Ava. Unless you wanted to sleep down the hall in the guest room, in a house that Claire probably knows better than I do because she was always here”

Was. He said was. Had he dumped Claire, then? She didn’t want to feel anything about that, but she couldn’t help the intense rush of satisfaction that filled her body.

to answer my question?” Ezekiel you’re

so quickly! You almost died last night, but here

a breath and sat

would never forget, Claire would have ripped her apart. She would never have seen her family

she saved that Jared’s cream couldn’t

the whispered.

surprise party last night she didn’t want to drops his name

ir first place.

at the thought of goin last thing she remembered was the really huge

again. Where

eyes widened as she turned to

“Chire fishe

be out there waiting to get you alone again. It’s probably safer for you to stay here until

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Chapter 49

senseless idiot around him! That wasn’t going to happen. And how was he going to deal with Claire, anyway? If she had been bold enough to attack her like that when the school was so biz

aid.

of bruises because she wouldn’t have a leg to stand on if

to the kitchen. I’m already late setting off,” she said as she stood up from

lot of blood i I think you need to take it easy the whole weekend. You can’t attend to your duties now,” Ezekiel

care about any of that,”

would need to get to Jared’s like this

to wear.

“Where are you going?”

Ezekiel come

his bed. She avoided looking lower than

and get

going near

“Excuse me?

because he was an

“Where w

Why did his pack just stand there? They would have smelled

burst her bubble, and

Jared have known! Had

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