Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 40

Chapter 40 Ava: Make Your Decision

Selene's words echo in my mind for a long time.

Is that why you took so long to come to me?

She sighs. It was a consideration, she says, and leaves it at that.

For the first time, I think I'm truly grateful that I was a defect. If I'd had Selene—if I'd gone into heat like this in the pack…

The life I would lead makes me shudder.

Thankfully, thinking about it helps with the symptoms of heat, too. Nothing like an instant turn-off even in the face of Lycan reproductive urges.

Wait a second. Why aren't you affected by my heat, if it's because of the Lycan part of me?

Selene's silence has me narrowing my eyes at the empty air. Selene!

I am not as young or as inexperienced as you, child. A heat does not overcome me in that way.

So, I'm young and inexperienced, and therefore I become a slutty ball of desire when I go through heat? Not fair.

Be careful, Selene says out of nowhere.

I look around, but I'm alone. My heat isn't out of control. What?

He's going to come through the window. Your guards are unaware.

Shit.

What do I do?

I need to tell the nurse.

Mating with an alpha would help your heat. You can do it without a claiming, if you want. You don't have to be fully mated just because you mate once or twice.

Um.

stare at her. I thought you didn't want me to

whoever you choose. I don't think you need to be loyal to a fate who didn't recognize what he had. I just think you should choose it when

Oh.

guess that

do I want

my heat driving us both to the brink of insanity, he's doing everything in his power to protect me. Guards stand

a stark contrast

feel like I was nothing. Lucas, who shattered my heart and left

And yet...

left at my door. Is it possible that he

don't know what to

yearns for Lucas, for the connection we shared, for the way he made me feel alive and whole. But my mind reminds me of the agony that followed, of the

in to my heat and do what my body's urging me to do. To mate with a near-stranger. To let Clayton soothe the desperate, aching need that courses through

just the heat talking, clouding my

I don't know.

know

by the expectations of others. I can choose my own path, my own

that I have a choice, it feels impossible to make

make a choice, Ava. Alert your nurses or choose Clayton. Hurry. He's almost there. If

it does nothing to quell the searing flames that lick at my insides. I'm already struggling to think, going in circles, and I can't leave the water to warn the nursing station of what's about to come through

this. Why does this stupid heat come

it out, Selene says. He's almost there.

of heat crashes over me, scorching every inch of my skin. I feel like I'm being consumed from the inside out, my body a

her tone steady and

words. But it's a losing

it, craves the touch

tiles, willing the chill to seep into my scorched skin. But it's no use. The heat is unrelenting, a

I whimper, my mind conjuring his image unbidden.

on me, his touch like a brand against my feverish flesh. The memory of our encounter in the garden flashes through my mind, vivid and torturous. The way he

scent, his claiming. Every fiber of my being yearns for him, craves the completion that only he can provide. But

body,

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