Chapter 49: FORTY-NINE

A good morning Ava woke up from the hard rock her head laid on, it took a while for her to return to her senses and realized that the hard rock turned out to be Lucas’s body. For the first time, she’d slept in his arms, and she’d woken up beside him, it was not like the disappointment she got from last time when he left her.

Even though all parts of her body ached and her neck felt a bit distorted, she wouldn’t give up last night for anything in the world, a blush crept up her cheeks as she remembered how she’d pleased him last night. She’d fulfilled his desires and he’d fulfilled hers as well. She was deep in her thoughts and didn’t know for how long Lucas had been watching her until she gazed up at him and met those dark blue eyes again, she smiled, leaned up and kissed him, sliding her tongue into his mouth, the kiss reminded her of the moments they shared the previous night, and she almost felt the need to continue it again, but she couldn’t; she had a day ahead of her and she had visitors to see, she sighed as she pulled back from his lips.

“Good morning, Alpha.”

“I have a name you know.”

She smiled again. “Good morning, Lucas.”

“Good morning, Ava, and how did you sleep?”

“Not very well.”

He creased his brow, “and why is that?”

Something unrelated came to her mind then. She recalled how she went on her knees to please him last night, how she begged to be the one, and embarrassment flooded her as she also recalled the contrasting words he’d said to her on the first day of her kidnap, “by the end of your stay here, you’ll be the one begging to sleep with me, you’ll be the one begging to stay with me forever, I promise you that.” She didn’t respond to the question he asked; she would not give him the satisfaction of knowing he was right after all, how her longing to be with him made her sleep on top of a hard rock like that without complaint. He was right, and although she wasn’t sure of forever, it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that she’s with him right now.

She changed the topic, standing up from the bed and proceeding to pick up her torn clothes from the floor.

“I’m going back to my room now, Lucas.”

“Ava.”

She turned. “Yes?”

He paused for a bit, as if finding the right words to say, before letting them out anyway.

“Would you um… like to dine with me this morning?”

She knew it took a lot of courage for him to ask her that, but why was he asking her? Why would he want to dine with her of all people?

It gets lonely for him whenever he’s alone. Sometimes he just wishes to have someone beside him, he has many people surrounding him, but he never had anyone he’d let close to his heart, not after Amelia and Bambi. Maybe now, his heart is willing to give love another chance, but will she accept to leave her duties behind for him?

“I’m sorry Lucas…” she hated to disappoint, but she’s already promised Meeka to join the pack for breakfast today, and besides, she figured she would kill two birds with one stone since she could meet with her visitors at the breakfast table. This was the perfect time for everyone to see her since they were all worried about her since the incident. She hates to have to disappoint Lucas, but she hates to break a promise too. Dining alone with him is not the best option now.

“Never mind, forget I even asked.”

“No, I would love to dine with you, just that I’d already promised to dine with the dawners this morning.”

“You dine with the dawners now?” He was taken aback, even though the dawners looked up to him and loved him as their alpha, he’d never shared a common ground with them to so much as share the same table, and he never expected his mate to do so too. What had Ava done within the short time she’s been here?

“Yes, even though they are diverse, they are very nice wolf folk you know, I’m sure they would love to have their alpha join them at the table someday.”

He’s sorry to disappoint but, “that won’t be happening anytime soon.” Don’t get him wrong, he loved his followers, and they loved him too, but except during play with the ones he trusted, he’s never made an attempt to let anyone near him again, or to give anyone a ground to deceive him again, maybe it’s because of what happened with Susan in the past, but he’s banned anyone apart from Nani from ever cooking his meals, and he’s never taken a single drop of alcohol ever since that day, he’s always made sure to be careful, and not to let anyone see him in a vulnerable position ever again, that’s why he refuses to let anyone so much as come close to him, but Ava, what was so special about her? He couldn’t tell.

Ava nodded her head slightly, understanding him perfectly.

“I’ll be downstairs if you need me, Lucas.”

“Ok.

She went out of the room in her clothing that barely covered because it had been ripped, managing to make her way to her bedroom and freshening up, putting on a new set of clothes before rushing downstairs to join them for breakfast, the table had already been set and some of the dawners were already seated.

“Ava!!!” Meeka’s voice echoed loudly through the large room. The little she-wolf ran to give her a hug which Ava had to bend and accept, picking Meeka up and swinging her in the air.

“I missed you, Ava!”

“Aww Meeka, but you saw me yesterday,” she chuckled.

“Doesn’t matter, Meeka still missed you,” the little girl pouted.

“Well in that case, I missed you too dear Meeka.”

She carried her to the table and sat her down on the empty seat, before letting out the empty chair beside it and sitting near Meeka.

She exchanged pleasantries with Suri and the other dawners while they ate, and a bit later, something then caught her attention; Nani was arranging an extra plate on the large table, the plate was placed before the largest dining chair at the edge of the table.