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.

here so I could stare at her. I

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

Oh.

that makes

I want

the brink of insanity, he's doing everything in his power to protect me. Guards stand outside

a stark

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

And yet...

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

don't know what to think

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

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

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

I don't know.

know what to

bound by fate or by the expectations of others. I can choose my own

a choice, it

or choose Clayton. Hurry. He's almost there. If you can't make a decision, your heat will make it for

flames that lick

does this stupid heat come on

out, Selene says. He's

crashes over me, scorching every inch of my skin. I feel like I'm being consumed

says, her tone steady and reassuring. Breathe through

in Selene's words. But it's a losing battle. The fire within me rages

release. My body craves it, craves the touch

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

my mind conjuring his image

through my mind, vivid and torturous.

the need intensifies, coiling tight in my core. I crave his touch, his scent, his claiming. Every fiber of my being yearns for him, craves the completion that only he can

down my body, my fingers

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