Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 66 Ava: Best Friends Are the Best

Life at home really sucks, but I find a little solace in the fact that, for once in my life, Jessa and Phoenix are on my side.

Kind of.

I am still a little worried that Jessa's just going to stab me in my sleep, but I don't think she wants to deal with the wrath that will come with that kind of drastic measure. I'm pretty sure she's keeping it as an option, but I don't think she's going to do it anytime soon.

Thanks to Jessa's pointing out of the obvious, my stress level is somewhat reduced as I thank Clayton in my head for succumbing to his heat-driven passions. Until Alpha Renard is sure that I have no Aspen pup in my womb, he's not going to touch me.

I can tell he has no true desire for me. Every time he looks at me, it's with calculation. I don't think the man's capable of feeling true desire for someone like me.

If our numbers were greater, I truly believe he would eradicate humans from the world instead of fighting with other packs.

It doesn't keep me safe now with this ridiculous 'true omega' nonsense they've got in their heads, but at least I have the luck of Mother Nature on my side…

And Jessa's cell phone.

She's not thrilled about it, but sits on the couch while I wait in the kitchen, listening to the ringing as I call Lisa's phone.

They shouldn't be keeping tabs on her now that I'm back, right?

But even if they do—she's my only ticket out of here.

"Hello?" her suspicious voice finally answers, after I call her three times in a row.

"Lise, it's me."

"Ava. Oh, my God. You're alive. You're okay. Wait, are you okay?"

A laugh bubbles in my throat even as tears fill my eyes. I love Lisa so damn much. How did I ever deserve a friend like her?

"There's a lot to fill you in on, but just wait and listen to the important stuff right now. I've been dragged back home. They caught me in Washington, where—oh, shit, you don't even know. I was with the Aspen pack… There's a lot to unpack there. We'll do that later. Anyway, some things happened and somehow they found out about it."

Wait. How did they find out?

to

as I

"Ave?"

me home. Long story short, my alpha wants to make babies with me

you an

ear, I double check the number on

not accurate, but I kind of get

Most of them are just called omegas because they were chosen to breed, not because they were meant to. But anyway, that's not the

to deal with the consequences of bad-mouthing an alpha. "So that old fart wants to fuck you? I'm not surprised.

if I disappear for a few months. Let's disappear together. Where

fill my eyes are falling now, dripping with embarrassing ease down my cheeks. "You can't do anything yet. They're still worried about me. But they are going to want to make sure I'm

hell have you been doing, and with who? Is

you think." Though my heart twists as I think of Clayton and how worried he must

together already. I guess that's what happens when you disassociate

And Lucas…

been a long

worried. Or maybe he's

"Ave. Ave?"

"Sorry, I'm here."

even try to tell me no. I miss you, and I'm not going to leave you here with your shitty family and your shitty pack.

New York…

makes me

wonder how Selene

and I'm gone, how will she

must have a

you know someone who makes fake IDs? We're going to need

want to go back to where you

think of Mrs. Elkins, and

go back more

know it's safe. It'll be the first place they look."

somewhere for us to go. When are we going

get out of here. You'd never make it onto pack lands, so I have