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.
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Go to her, my wolf demands. Claim her before he does.
I shake my head. “She needs space. I have to respect
that.”
needs. She needs her mate. She needs us.
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 of the fate bond inside
of me.
out
strip off my clothes and shift, letting my wolf take over. He surges forward, all coiled power and barely
summer filling my lungs. Out here,
her.
riva har
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Earn back her trust, her affection. Prove that
unsatisfied, but I push on. One step at a
turmoil fades, replaced by the simple joy of the run. My wolf revels in the
we need, he rumbles, content for the first time
I
Out here, the complications of pack politics and the tangled web of my love life seem far away. There’s only the wind in my fur
run for miles, losing ourselves in the primal
own shadows. The worries melt away, leaving only the purity
a scent on the
dog, my wolf snorts, his nose twitching as he
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odor. Probably some human’s
at my memory. I can’t quite place it,
trail deeper into the woods. The scent grows
frame. It looks up at us with wary blue eyes, hackles raising slightly at the
not just a wolf. And this is no ordinary
Selene.
half–remembered fragment from days of watching Ava
in Cedarwood.
here, alone and bedraggled? And why do I get the feeling that there’s more to this
husky, my wolf watching
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