Chapter 73: SEVENTY-THREE
Chapter 73: SEVENTY-THREE
Love
Nani went to the table and dropped the tray, before coming back to where Lucas was, she took his
hands in hers and shook him a bit.
“Lucas!!! Lucas!!! Please listen to me… Can you hear me? Are you okay???”
Lucas opened his eyes and took his hands from Nani’s. “Relax Nani, alcohol does nothing to
wolves, else I would’ve taken so much more.”
“Thank the goddess!” Nani said, letting out a sigh of relief, thank the goddess she came on time
before Lucas tried anything worse to himself to try to take away the ‘hurt.’
Lucas couldn’t have felt any worse in his life, before when he had feelings similar to this, Vivian
and Ria where always there for him, before Ava came along and the feeling of being with her
superseded the way he’s ever been with any other woman, and now, he has no one, no one here to
comfort him. He felt someone hold his hand again, turning his head in the direction of the contact and
seeing Nani’s face. Of course, his sweet Nani, he’d even forgotten for a second that she came here.
“She left me Nani; she’s gone forever.”
“I know, but I came here to tell you to stop feeling pity for yourself and man up, you’re not to blame
for what happened, and neither is she.”
“I should have never kidnapped her.”
“She is your mate; she was meant to come to you.”
“And she did, she submitted, she even chose to stay with me even after I told her she could go.”
“You let her go before?”
“Yes, I wanted her to have a choice, and not be forced to bend at my will, and she chose to remain
here even though her duties remained unfulfilled back at home.”
“A Luna choosing her personal desire over her duties? It’s never been heard of. She could’ve been
punished severely if she were found out.”
“Yes, but she never considered that.”
“There’s no way that Ava didn’t know about the punishment Lucas, she knew that if her alpha or
anyone found out what she’d done, giving another man her claim when it should’ve been given to her
alpha, she would’ve been guilty of offending her pack’s customs but yet she didn’t care, she chose to
stay with you! She loves YOU Lucas!”
“No, she doesn’t. She loves her betrothed, she said it herself to my face.”
“Nonsense! Do you really believe that? Do you really believe that she’d stay with you for this long if
she didn’t nurse any feelings in her heart for you? Do you really think she would choose your presence
over his if she were truly in love with him as she said? The pull of the mate bond on her was long gone,
she could’ve left after that, but yet she chose to stay, because there was something more sustaining
keeping her; LOVE!”
“She’s gone now, there’s no chance of us being together.”
“That’s a lie, there’s every chance, you can still go after her now. The news of losing her betrothed
has distorted her, she’s not thinking clearly. If she goes back to her pack to tell them and confess where
she’s been she’ll be punished for sure and only the goddess knows what form of punishment this new
alpha might give her, he might even kill her.”
Lucas didn’t answer.
“Lucas???”
“Please leave me alone Nani.”
“Fine. I’ll leave you alone to think about it, but you don’t have much time now, Ava might be happy
to die to ease her soul and her guilt for the destruction she’s caused, but you, you’ll never have another
chance at fulfillment if you lose her Lucas De’ Clan.”
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It was afternoon time when Layla reached the house where Ava, Ray and Ethan used to live. She
came here first because she wanted to know exactly what happened, and who better to tell her than Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.
Ethan himself?
She walked into the house, changing back to her human form and entering her bedroom to wear
some clothes before looking to see who was around, she realized the house was empty, of course
someone would have heard her come in but no one was at home, she didn’t want to make an
appearance at the packhouse, not yet, at least not until she found out what happened to Ray and seen
him for the last time, she was very sure she’d be denied that chance before her punishment, if she
survived it.
She was in the kitchen when she heard the front door open, thank the goddess someone had
come, she ran through the corridor to check who it was, and it was none other than her friend, Nicole.
Nicole jumped at the sight of her, unable to believe her eyes, all the blood drained from her face
like she’d seen a ghost.
“Ava!!!”