Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 115 Ava: Fate's Urging

Ava, Selene warns in my mind, her voice a distant echo. Remember what you need.

I try to focus on her words, but it's hard when Lucas is kissing me like this, like I'm the only thing that matters in the world.

His hands slide under my shirt, his calloused fingers skimming over my sensitive skin. I arch into his touch, a soft moan escaping my lips.

"Lucas," I breathe, my voice barely recognizable to my own ears. "We have to stop."

He pulls back, his golden eyes blazing with desire. "I know. I'm sorry. I just can't control myself around you."

But his hands are still seeking, and I'm still arching into their touch. Rough fingers pull the cup of my bra low, and his thumb flicks over my nipple.

I take a shaky breath, trying to clear my head. "I need time, Lucas. Space. I can't do this right now."

But I step closer, trying to yank his shirt out of his waistband.

I should push him away, remind him of the boundaries I've fought so hard to establish, but my traitorous body melts into his embrace, craving his touch like a parched flower thirsts for rain.

The way my name lingers on his lips, the way he breathes it like reverent prayer against my ears as his fingers continue to tug and twist in a sensual dance against my breast? I'm lost. Drowning beneath sensation.

The very core of me throbs with a need so basic, so simple, and so consuming.

"Lucas," I whisper, my voice a breathless plea. "We can't..."

But even as the words leave my lips, I'm pulling him closer, my fingers tangling in his dark hair, my mouth seeking his with a desperation that frightens me. He meets me halfway, his kiss searing and possessive, claiming me as his own.

flared to life, a pulsing, living thing that demands to be acknowledged. It's a force beyond our control, a need that overrides all reason and

moment, we're not Ava and Lucas, two individuals with complicated pasts and uncertain futures. We're simply two halves of a whole, drawn together by a

His answering growl sends another

them against my hips and walks me backward, guiding me until I feel the edge of the

saying something, but I don't pay any attention. She's probably telling me to stop, and there's no way

is here with us, part of the moment. When I fall back

and down my legs, tossing them somewhere behind him to land

about that smooth motion

thing in the world, like he would lay down his life to protect me.

toward my inner thighs, and my hips buck in frustration, seeking more. More friction,

with my jeans and his mouth settles there, right at the core of me,

I beg, gripping his hair with such force that my knuckles

hold me down, both wrapped around

Fuck.

teeth scrape against my clit, as he sucks and nibbles and licks and

dark throb to over the cliff without warning, and I gasp and buck beneath his

growls, the approval in his words, sends

One isn't enough.

Not even close.

kissing his way up my belly as one of his hands settles between

comes out of his throat tells me that his

burns and I shove my hips toward his hand eagerly as he

as another

like that, love?" he asks, his words hot against