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.

Selene was here so I could stare at her. I thought you didn't want me to mate with

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

Oh.

that makes

I

provided me with care in the form of an entire hospital. Even now, with my heat driving us both to the brink of insanity, he's doing everything in his power to protect me. Guards stand outside my door, ready to intervene

a stark contrast to

after our moment in the garden. Lucas, who made me feel like I was nothing. Lucas, who shattered my heart and left me

And yet...

notes, the apologies, the meals left at my door. Is it possible that he regrets his actions? That he wants to atone for the pain he caused

know what to think

and whole. But my mind reminds me of the agony that followed, of the shame and humiliation I endured in the aftermath

what my body's urging me to do. To mate with a near-stranger.

it just the heat talking, clouding my judgment and obscuring the deeper truths of

I don't know.

know what

have to be bound by fate or by the expectations of others.

that I have a choice, it

He's almost there. If you

nothing to quell the searing flames that lick at my insides. I'm

Why does this stupid heat

Selene says. He's

inch of my skin. I feel like I'm being

my voice, Selene says, her tone steady and reassuring. Breathe through it. Don't

suck in a ragged breath, trying to ground myself in Selene's words. But it's a losing battle. The fire within

craves

scorched skin. But it's no use. The heat is unrelenting, a raging

conjuring his image

almost feel his hands 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

in my core. I crave his touch, his scent, his claiming. Every fiber of my being yearns for him,

hands slide down my body, my fingers

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