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.

at her. I

with 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

Oh.

that makes

I

He's 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 if he

a stark contrast to

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

And yet...

at my door. Is it possible that he regrets his actions? That he wants to atone

know what to think

heart 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 shame and humiliation I endured in the aftermath of

so easy to give in to the temptation, to give in to my heat and do what my body's urging me to do. To mate with a near-stranger. To let Clayton soothe

I truly want? Or is it just the heat talking, clouding my

I don't know.

don't know what to

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

choice, it feels impossible to make

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

stall. The icy water cascades over my body, but 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

this stupid heat come

brings it out, Selene says. He's

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

my voice, Selene says, her tone steady and reassuring. Breathe

words. But

thunders through me, painful in its insistence of release. My body craves it, craves the touch of my alpha, craves

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

my mind conjuring

a brand against my feverish flesh. The memory of our encounter in the garden flashes through my mind, vivid and torturous. The way he held me, the way he kissed me, the way he made me feel like

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 provide. But

body,

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