Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 102

Chapter 102 Lucas: Jealousy

LUCAS

She's going to talk to Clayton tonight.

She won't let me call her, but she'll talk to him.

Fuck. I'm going crazy.

My wolf gives me the silent treatment, a palpable wall of disapproval and resentment radiating from him. I know he blames me for this mess.

"I'm trying," I mutter, pacing the length of my office. "I'm doing everything I can to fix this."

There would be nothing to fix if you hadn't rejected our mate in the first place, he snaps, his voice dripping with accusation.

Rubbing my hands over my face, I struggle not to groan in frustration. He's right and I fucking hate it. If I hadn't been so goddamn stupid, Ava would have been with me long ago. Safe. Marked. Mine.

But I can't change the past. I can only try to salvage the future.

Go to her, my wolf demands. Claim her before he does.

I shake my head. "She needs space. I have to respect that."

Space is the last thing she needs. She needs her mate. She needs us.

storm over there and drag her back to my bed, is almost overwhelming. But I can't. I won't be that kind of alpha. That

need to clear my head. Get out of this suffocating

a word to anyone, I strip off my clothes and shift, letting my wolf take over. He surges forward, all coiled power and barely leashed aggression,

cold night air whips past us as we run, the scents of summer filling my lungs. Out here,

her. Show her that I'm the one she belongs with, the only one who

right way. Earn back her trust, her affection. Prove that I'm

growls, impatient and unsatisfied, but I push on. One step at a time. One

drowns out the chaos in my head. With each stride, the turmoil fades, replaced by the

is what we need, he rumbles, content for the first time in

and the tangled web of my love life seem far away. There's only the wind in my fur and

if we're chasing nothing but our own shadows.

then, a scent on the breeze. Something

as he catches the odor. Probably some

memory. I can't

the trail deeper into the woods.

and dull, ribs showing through its skinny frame. It looks up at

not just a wolf. And this is

Selene.

whispers through my mind, a half-remembered fragment from days

And why do I get the feeling that

watching intently from behind my eyes. Selene stands her

dog should possess. As if she knows exactly who and

disdain over stray dogs, and the next he's groveling on his belly like a pup begging for attention. I can only watch in stunned disbelief as

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