Tangled

92 Ava Clearing the Air (1)

92 Ava: Clearing the Air (II)

My stomach churns, and I get through the rest of the words as quickly as I can. “My heat was uncontrollable, and I had sex with the alpha there. He took care of me and Phoenix kidnapped me when I was shopping with his sister. No, we aren’t mated, but we aren’t strangers, either.”

There.

It’s out.

I peek at Lucas to see his reaction, but he’s just sitting there, his eyes unfocused.

It’s obvious that he’s taking some time to process everything.

My eyes drop to our linked hands, and I wonder if I should pull away before he does.

“Huh,” he says, and squeezes my fingers.

Of all the responses I’d been expecting, that one isn’t on my list.

“Lucas?”

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He smiles at me, a lopsided little one. “I’m going to need a little time to process all this. I don’t understand how you can go into heat without a wolf, for one. But I’m not angry, Ava.”

I narrow my eyes in suspicion. “That doesn’t seem right.”

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He sighs. “I’m… disappointed. In the situation, in how I put you there. In the way things could have gone but didn’t, because of me. I’m angry at myself, and I have

I don’t want

my knuckles that has my belly fluttering. “I know that you haven’t chosen us yet. I know that there’s a lot more that you haven’t told me. I know that I fucked up. And I’m not going

to his voice, his words are calm

Clearing the Air (II)

I nod.

feeling some of the stress ease from my body.

angry with me.

have to punch Clayton for touching what’s

“I wasn’t–he didn’t-”

a joke, Ava.”

like he’s

him in doubt.

kisses my fingers again. “Ava. I fucked

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to give me a

I nod, again.

both pushed together by this bond, but I want more than that. I want you, heart and soul, with everything inside of you begging to be mine. I want to know that you

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us. I want there to

secrets, and no

send a quiver of longing straight through

my mate. I’m the one who lost the right to call you that. I’m the one who pushed you into a situation where you

all the anger.

on a string. I don’t know how else to respond except to nod mindlessly

a lot. You need to have your -chance to be angry with me. Don’t feel obligated toward me, toward us, just because I took

against my fingers, before turning my hand over to nuzzle his

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the

his actions are

far from

“Lucas-”

my skin, and his groan sends quivers straight into the very core of me. I shift beneath the blanket, wondering how

keep that promise, I’m going to have to walk

my other hand, gently

Lucas nips at my wrist, pulling back with a sigh, and