Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 172

Chapter 172 Ava: Boiling Point

The jarring melody blares out of my phone, startling me nearly out of my skin.

Selene's ears flick as I grab it, seeing Lucas' name flash across the screen. Both butterflies and dread swim through me; butterflies, because it's Lucas.

Dread, because I'm hiding things from him again.

"Hello?"

"I miss you."

His greeting is so him, and my lips curl up immediately. "I miss you, too."

"Are you okay? Hurt anywhere?"

Of course, he knows about the riot. "I'm fine. Not hurt at all. Everyone kept me safe."

When he sighs, I can imagine his face, how his brows furrow as he inspects me. "I wish you hadn't come outside."

"I held my own, though, didn't I?" There's a little pride in my voice over that.

"So I hear. It would have been better if you weren't in danger, though."

Vanessa's stopped pacing to stare out the window, still in thought. Selene flops into my lap, and I scratch behind her ears absently. "You can't shelter me from everything."

"I should be able to."

It's weird, the way his words both warm my heart and send my hackles up. "I'm not a child, Lucas."

"I never said you were, Ava." Immediately into that soothing tone. He's always trying to calm me down, and for some reason that makes me even more agitated.

The begrudging

soft feel of Selene's fur beneath my hands, I force myself to relax. It's Lucas.

that thought in mind, the words come out before I

idea, and

Shit.

for a few seconds, and I close my

well

to try talking to Mom's wolf. She might be

The silence continues.

strong enough to force

with a grim note in his

have so

trying to do crazy bullshit again, and you expect

from my ear, my eyes wide as Lucas' fury lashes through the

explain. Selene is

you're in too much danger to be doing anything like this. I've given in to you too many times. What are you going to do when Alpha Renard realizes you aren't defective after

to the gut, and I physically recoil, curling in on myself. Selene growls low in her throat, hackles

heels. I straighten my spine,

keep yourself out of trouble for one goddamn second! How long have you been in Blackwood? And there's already a riot on

about me, or my safety. It's about someone who's already in danger. Someone in danger because of me. How am I supposed to sit here and wait for

there was an entire massacre on pack lands, Ava. Do

on pack grounds. I

harshly. "You know now. And you're aware of how much effort I'm making in trying to get Lisa back, even when she isn't my pack. But you have to throw all my efforts in my face, don't you? You

eyes, I struggle to keep my

with secrets, but you don't trust me to bring Lisa back. Or that I'm doing things with your best interest in mind. You don't think about me, and the lack of respect absolutely blows my fucking mind, Ava. I've done my best and bent over backward for you, to the detriment of

trying to help my best friend, especially if you

you're being blind to your situation. It's too dangerous, Ava. I'm trying to

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