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.

I wish Selene was here so I could stare at her. I thought you

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

Oh.

guess that makes

do I

but kind and respectful. 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

stark

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

And yet...

been trying to make amends, hasn't he? The notes, the apologies, the meals left at my door. Is it possible that he regrets his actions? That he wants to atone for

don't know what to

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

do what my body's

just the heat talking, clouding my judgment and

I don't know.

don't know

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

choice, it feels

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

against the frigid tiles of the shower stall. The icy water cascades over my body, but it does nothing to quell the searing flames that lick at my

Why does this stupid heat come

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 being consumed from the inside out, my body a raging inferno that no amount of water

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

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

body craves it, craves the touch of my alpha,

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

conjuring his image unbidden.

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 held me, the way he kissed

lips as 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

my body, my fingers diving between my

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