Chapter 139

“You can’t hand yourself over. Ava” Mr Patrick said quietly

Ava opened her eyes and looked at the professor who’d sat in front of her on the floor the moment her father had gone to help Zeke clear his head.

“You really need to stop doing that,” she sighed.

“I can’t help you if you remain so closed off. I have to do it”

“That’s what this is about, isn’t it?” She frowned in irritation. “This isn’t about meditating; it’s about you having free access to my thoughts.”

“Something is blocking you from your wolf, probably something to do with the trauma of your first shift. If you don’t let me do this, you’ll need a for longer than this week to figure it out Mr Patrick said, without even an ounce of remorse. “You don’t have time to mess around, Ava”

He had no right to look into her head! She couldn’t hide her anger as she stood and walked out of the living room. She didn’t know how she was feeling, and Mr. Patrick was sorting through that mess in her head anyway.

Without another thought, she went out to the back. She was barefoot already, so she just sat down at the edge of the pool and put her feet in the water. This was pointless. Zeke was right about that. Wasting time for nothing. She should have gone to the dean as she had planned to.

“No. Ava. That’s a bad idea. Mr Patrick said from behind her.

“Stop”

She hadn’t heard him follow her out, so she wondered if h

he had Just appeared like he had done last night.

Mr Patrick sighed and then bent to take his shoes off.

“What are you doing?”

“I need a break, too,” he answered as he took his socks off and carefully folded his trousers.

The man had come to meditate in a suit as if he was lecturing his students.

look good around here,” he said as he sat beside her and put his feet in

water.

a while, but she knew she might as well have been having a loud, one–sided conversation with him. Her head was too messed up to allow her to shield her thoughts from him as well as she usually did. Or at

can’t hand yourself in,

“I killed people:

of her mouth brought all the guilt back

live with myself if I don’t

“I understand where y

but Ava, it’s not

way to keep Zeke out of the way,

else to mate

something strange before he looked at the

what a true mate is

She shook her head

days. Whether that’s a blessing or curse. I’m not sure anymore. Mr Patrick

scapartly that the knew that whatever he was saying was related to him, too. A true mate! There were variations? She read a lot but had never come arrows that term. Whatever that was, she hoped

your fatire, you know,” Mr

“And your brother, Caleb. You may not be related to them by

pulled away from thoughts of Zeke topling

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taught

focus. I wish I had as long to teach you because I think you’ll only truly

still bringing that topic back up when he cut her off

think they already knew about you and have been testing you from the beginning” he said. “Why else would they invite a human

an Alpha’s daughter. A simple mistake that

didn’t make a mistake,

water. It didn’t matter what she was now. She’d

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