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.

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

out of this suffocating office and just...

wolf take over. He surges forward, all coiled power and barely leashed aggression, and we race out

air whips past us as we run, the scents of summer filling my lungs. Out here, with nothing but

have to fight for her. Show her that I'm the one she

do it the right way. Earn back

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

each stride, the turmoil fades, replaced

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

politics and the tangled web of my love

run for miles, losing ourselves in the primal pleasure of the hunt, even if we're chasing nothing but

a scent on the

my wolf snorts, his nose twitching as he catches the

there's something familiar about it, something that tugs at my memory. I can't quite place it, but it draws me in

the trail deeper into the woods. The scent grows stronger

through its skinny frame. It looks up at us with wary

wolf. And

Selene.

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

what is Selene doing out here, alone and bedraggled? And why do I get the feeling that there's more to

husky, my wolf watching intently from behind my

should possess. As if

moment he's all aloof 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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