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.

could stare at her. I thought you didn't want me to mate

with whoever you choose. I don't think you need to be loyal to a

Oh.

that

do I want

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

a stark contrast

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

And yet...

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

know what to

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

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

just the heat talking, clouding my judgment and obscuring the deeper

I don't know.

don't know

don't have to be bound by fate or by the expectations of others. I can

that I have a choice, it

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

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 about to

this stupid heat

Selene says. He's

feel like I'm being consumed from the inside out, my

tone steady and

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

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 burns

mind conjuring his image

mind, vivid and torturous.

escapes my lips as the need intensifies, coiling tight in my core. I crave his touch, his scent, his claiming. Every fiber of my being

slide down my body, my

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