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.”
the last thing she needs. She
her back to my bed, is almost overwhelming. But I can’t. I won’t be that kind of alpha. That kind
of me.
clear my head. Get out of this suffocating office and just…
clothes and shift, letting my wolf take over. He surges
night air whips past us as we run, the scents of summer filling my lungs. Out
what I have to do. I have to fight for her. Show her that I’m the one she belongs with, the only
can riva har avaruthing
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the right way. Earn back
push on. One step at a time. One day
head. With each stride, the turmoil fades, replaced by the simple joy of the run. My wolf revels in the freedom,
he rumbles, content for the
I
of my love life seem far away.
run for miles, losing ourselves in
the hunt, even if we’re chasing nothing but our own shadows. The worries melt away, leaving only the purity
the breeze. Something
his
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odor. Probably some
that tugs at my memory. I can’t quite place it, but it draws me in
woods. The scent grows stronger with each bound,
and dull, ribs showing through its skinny frame. It looks up at us with wary blue eyes, hackles raising
wolf. And this
Selene.
through my mind, a half–remembered fragment from days of
in Cedarwood.
Selene doing out here, alone and bedraggled? And why do I get the feeling that there’s
approach the husky, my wolf watching intently from behind my
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