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.

is almost overwhelming. But I can't. I won't be that kind of alpha. That kind of man. I won't be enslaved to the urges

head. Get out of this suffocating office and

letting my wolf take over. He surges forward, all coiled power and barely leashed aggression,

we run, the scents of summer filling my lungs. Out here, with nothing but the wind and the trees, things seem

Show her that I'm the one

to do it the right way. Earn back her trust, her affection. Prove that I'm

unsatisfied, but I push on. One step at a time. One day at a

With each stride, the turmoil fades, replaced by the simple joy of the run. My wolf revels in the

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

agree. Out here, the complications of pack politics and the tangled web of my love life seem far away. There's

the hunt, even if we're chasing nothing but our own shadows. The worries

the

wolf snorts, his nose twitching as he catches the odor. Probably

memory. I can't quite place it, but

course, following the trail deeper into the woods. The scent grows stronger with each bound, urging us

husky, its fur matted and dull, ribs showing through its skinny frame. It

I'm not just a wolf. And

Selene.

my mind, a half-remembered fragment from days of watching Ava

alone and bedraggled? And why do I get the feeling that there's more

from behind my eyes. Selene stands her ground,

intelligence there, a depth that no ordinary dog should possess. As if she

his belly like a pup begging for attention. I can

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