Ava by L.G.Savage (HeartBreak)

Chapter 57

Zeke didn’t stop running until he was in the house. He was breathless and Tost his footing many times but kept his hold on Ava. Derek and Myles had shifted to keep up with him because he was a lot faster than them, everi in his human form, but he had no idea how he had managed that with the silver still burning through him. He knew some of it was Ava’s pain through this cursed bond, adding to pain that had already been crippling before he had forced the shift and gone into the forest

Ava looked lifeless in his arms. His heart constricted in his chest when he looked at her pale face and the cuts and bruises all over it, but he concentrated on her heartbeat to calm himself dowa She was alive. In pain but alive

Drake and Myles shifted back, and Myles made to take Ava from him, but he growled in warning. Shadow wanted her close. And so did he, Fuck-

She could have died. Another minute and even he would never have been able to find her in there. The forest had claimed countless lives since the Academy was built, and it grew stronger with each passing year. Ava shouldn’t have survived this, not when she was so human and frail. She shouldn’t have been able to get so far into the forest. He’d had to struggle and fight his way to get to her, and if it weren’t for Shadow, they would both have died in there.

He staggered to the stairs, still listening to her heartbeat, unable to concentrate on anything else

“Let us help you, Derek said gently. “She needs to go to the infirmary”

“You both do,” Myles said.

“Not”

The first thing those doctors would do was hand them over to the Council for breaching the boundary into the forest. It was the worst infraction anyone could commit at the academy, and the punishment would be severe.

“You’ll be okay. You’re an Alpha, they won’t-

“I said no

behind him. The hallway to his room seemed longer than usual as he struggled to the end of

once he was in his room and then

full damage. She was cut everywhere on her body, Bruises, cuts and blisters like first–degree burns covered too much of her skin, and when he reached

one had ever lived to tell the tale of what was in there, but the very few that had done it before the forest had become this strong had become so messed up that the Council had to put them down. That way why they would take them both in straight away, to

heal She always heals,

she’d seemed to heal instantly after Claire’s bite

attention

death sentence. You know that,

growled.

you a wet

to his body. He knew he was

the bed and dropped himself into it. When Derek returned with a bowl of warm water and a washcloth, he stopped his Beta from using them on him. He took the cloth and reached over with his shaky hand to

She will

Shadow.arpraind

back out. They would have reported hun immediately. If dat was the case, the dean was already on his way to

wiped Ava’s face again, and once again,

waking up.

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2:15 PM ·

Chapter 57

wake up and they find out we didn’t take her to the infirmary, Derek