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.

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

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

Oh.

that

do I want

he's doing everything in his power to protect me. Guards stand

stark contrast to

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

And yet...

apologies, the meals left at my door. Is it possible that he

don't know what to think

the way he made me feel alive and whole. But my mind reminds me of the agony that followed, of the shame

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

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

I don't know.

don't know

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

I have a choice, it feels

or choose Clayton. Hurry. He's almost there. If

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

Why does this stupid heat come on

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

my frame as another wave of heat crashes over me, scorching every inch of my skin. I feel like I'm

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

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

painful in its insistence of release. My body craves it, craves the touch of my alpha, craves a claiming

forehead against the cool tiles, willing the chill to seep into my scorched skin. But it's no use. The heat is unrelenting, a raging inferno that

mind conjuring his image

vivid and torturous. The way he held me, the way he kissed me, the way he made me feel

core. I crave his touch, his scent,

hands slide down my body, my fingers diving

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