Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 43

Chapter 43 Ava: Virgin Heat (III)

I don't want to think. I nuzzle my nose into Clayton's neck and breathe him in, hearing Selene growling in the back of my head. "For what?"

"For all of it. But for claiming you when you told me no." I can feel his hands brushing against my neck, and pleasure and pain course through me. I can still feel him in my head, but the presence is fading. He sounds puzzled. "It didn't take, though. Why didn't it take?"

I shake my head. "I don't know." But I can guess it has something to do with me.

Clayton continues to caress my neck. "This looks terrible. Like a wolf tore your neck apart. It looks like I tried to kill you."

"Mmm." I'm tired, and trying to ignore the little flares of heat in my abdomen that are trying to come back.

My body can't take another round of this. But I want one.

"You were a virgin," Clayton continues. He's very talkative after sex, I guess.

He sounds grim. I finally open one eye to look at him, and he looks furious. "I'm sorry?"

"No, I'm sorry. Your first time should have never been like that."

His fingers trail through the tangled strands, gently working out the knots. I can't help but lean into his touch, savoring the tenderness, the gentle affection.

"I'm so sorry, Ava," he murmurs, his breath warm against my temple. "I never wanted to hurt you like this. I tried so hard to stay away and keep you safe."

A pang of guilt twists in my chest at the remorse in his voice. I already know he never meant to hurt me. He did everything he could.

"It's okay," I whisper through the roughness in my throat. "I understand."

time should have been special, not a frenzied mess driven by instinct and heat." He presses a tender kiss to my forehead. "I promise, when this is

with Clayton, without the haze

hoped to find with

now, my love," he murmurs, his fingers trailing down my spine in a featherlight caress. "Let

heat creeping back into me, desperate for more. His tender affections feed

it when my hips grind down a little

You

rubbing harder. I can feel him

round? Because

I whisper into his ear, licking my way down his neck and breathing

pull myself away in horror. I've cheated on my fated mate. Another part of me doesn't care. Isn't okay to have

He rejected you. Your mate bond is

why didn't Clayton's

Normally, I'd be frustrated and demand more answers, but—I

eyes flare with a hint of yellow. His wolf is there. His wolf

had pushed me into another plane of

"Ava."

meets his shoulder, as his

inside of

was there,

over and over, in an agonizingly slow rhythm. Just

This isn't enough.

you," he says, and every

Selene groans in

want

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