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91 Ava: Clearing the Air (I)

All my thoughts circle into some sort of insane melodrama right out of Selene’s favorite TV show, and I slap my hands against my face, rubbing hard against my cheeks, as though I can push the tears right back into my eyes.

“Sorry,” I say, as Lucas rests a worried hand against my back, stroking me like you would pet a puppy. It’s cute.

He doesn’t seem to know what to do with me, while

I’m just grateful that he’s trying.

Once I’m sure my tears are gone, I smile up at him. “I’m just frazzled.”

“You’ve been through a lot. Did I upset you when I took -the phone call?”

“No!” The word bursts from me in horror. Does he

think I’m that kind of person, who gets upset when he has to do important things instead of watching me sit in a hospital bed? “Not at all.”

He blows out a breath in what I’m sure is massive relief. No one wants a mate that high maintenance. “Are you upset that I have to leave?”

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I cringe. “It isn’t that.” I just came to some insane levels of assumptions. “Why… do you have to go?”

“Ah.” Now he looks uncomfortable, and takes a seat on my bed, grabbing my hand.

Oh, God. This can’t be good.

“Once we were safe, Kellan–my beta–led a force of my men into the heart of the Blackwood pack.” I must not look devastated enough, because he clarifies, “In

an act of war.”

he seems to want some sort of input from me, I nod to show that I’m

in the chaos, your family and Alpha Renard escaped, but the

I nod again.

over your pack,” he says, as if

head. “I don’t care what happens to them.” Too

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probably supposed to feel a lot of things right now. Like sadness, anxiety,

my soul that

psychopath. He’s treating me so carefully as he tells me all these things, and not a single one has

between mine. He must think

integrating them into ours, or letting them go as rogues. I’ll be back every few days. Right now, another alpha is helping me keep things in control over

urge to reach out and rub the lines on his brow. “You’ll do great,” I assure him. “But before you go, I have to tell you S~ᴇaʀᴄh the (ꜰind)ɴʘvel.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters

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something.”

be Clayton;

out soon. I have to head this

minutes.

need you to promise to

“Whatever you have to tell me, don’t worry, Ava. I won’t think less of

time to worry about them.

has his fingers going slack against mine, and his

deep breath. “There were some rogues in Cedarwood who caught

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into heat without

and I freeze.

know

the Gala, I’d been under the impression you were working with your family–with the alpha of

that’s why he looked at me with such

took us a long time. to get someone into the pack

his face, and his thumb rubs over the back of my hand, over and

contrition.

Ava. If I had just kept my head out of my ass, I would have brought you back with me that night. You would have been safe. I was so focused on how I