CHAPTER 49
NOVA POV
Patrolling the perimeter of the pack was starting to get really tedious and it was the same trail
every time.
I was getting really sick of it and I hadn’t even been doing it for that long.
So I decided to have some fun with it.
I climbed up into a tree and I started jumping from tree to tree while I was still watching the
ground for any intruders.
I saw the patrols running past but thanks to me hiding my scent, they didn’t even know that I
was watching them.
I loved messing with them when they didn’t know that I was out here. And they never figured
out that it was me.
I would throw things at them and then take off since I could run faster than a wolf and a
vampire.
It was fun just to mess around with them a little.
But I still had a job to do and I kept jumping from tree to tree until I got to a larger space
between trees because the highway was between them.
I was about to make the jump when I saw a car driving up the road and then I heard someone
walking from the other side of the highway. Coming down from the pack.
“What the hell is Ava doing out here?” I asked myself.
So I stayed in the tree and looked down at her as she stood to the side of the road and the car pulled up next to her.
“Hello Wesley.” Ava said.
“So, I hear my daughter is causing you some problems.” Wesley said.
What the f**k?
That’s not who I think it is?
“She’s a beautiful girl but she’s a pain in the ass.” Wesley thought to himself, and a picture of
me flashed in his head.
I knew that they were talking about me. And then they started carrying on about me not
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accepting the mate bond. I was never meant to and I was putting the whole pack at jeopardy
by doing it.
I was listening to these two ramble on about a lot of s**t about me when I looked off into the distance while trying to process what they were saying and something else caught my eye on the other side of the highway.
It was the triplets.
They were also watching. They must have been following Ava.
First they have a secret meeting discussing whether or not I should be allowed to stay here and now she’s called my father to get me away from the triplets.
I only know about the meeting because Emily came home while I was still at Lexie’s and she was thinking about it.
I was happy to know that she was defending me. But it was still a slap in the face.
The triplets obviously know more than I do and they are the ones that have to tell me.
But I messaged them before and they said that they were doing pack paperwork. They lied to me because they are obviously following Ava.
As soon as everyone left I sat there waiting for a while and the triplets headed back into town. I didn’t actually finish my sweep of the town that night. I just walked around for a little while before I went home and they were waiting for me at my house.
They all looked cheery and upbeat, like nothing was going on.
I was surprised when they offered to take me out to dinner but I agreed.
It was awkward at the diner because everyone was staring and I could hear what they were
thinking.
All of them thinking that I shouldn’t even be here. That they couldn’t wait until this war was over and I would leave.
None of them were going to accept me as their Luna.
But Koda yelled at them in the mind link and they stopped staring at me. But it didn’t stop what they were thinking about me.
Dean was acting really weird as well. I know that he wanted to tell me something, but he just
wasn’t.
When we got back to my place we sat around watching a movie and I fell asleep on the couch.
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I wasn’t sure how long I was asleep for but when I woke up I was in bed with the guys and it was still dark.
I crept out of bed and I snuck down to the basement where I closed the door to the firing range.
I grabbed my throwing knives and I started throwing them at the target.
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Each knife I threw got harder and harder until I couldn’t pull the knife out of the wood cut out anymore. So I went into the gym and I started taking my frustration out on my punching bag. Putting holes in them all the time so I needed to grab another punching bag and hang it up as well.
When I finally felt like I had worked out all of my frustration I went upstairs to the kitchen to get a drink and I saw the sun coming up.
I sat at the table and I opened my laptop and I started searching for a man named Wesley that fit the description of the man that I saw last night.
I’d never seen him before but he called me his daughter.
And why would Ava call him because I decided to accept the mate bond.
I knew that Ava couldn’t be trusted, but this was beyond anything I could have imagined.
Dean was the first one to wake up and he came downstairs, so I closed the computer and I
grabbed my bottle of water.
He could see the sweat dripping off of me and he grabbed my hand to see the bruises covering my knuckles.
“Is everything alright?” He asked, concerned.
“Yeah. Just had a hard workout session this morning.” I said.
“I’ll say. I’ve never seen you bruised before.” He said.
“Yeah. You have. While I was injecting wolfsbane so you didn’t know who I was.” I said. And he
nodded his head.
“That was different.”
He sat at the table and he was looking at me really concerned. But I just looked out the kitchen window watching the sun come up.
I was trying to come up with my next move. There were people within my own circle plotting against me and I didn’t know why.
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But I had an idea on how I could find out.
Once the guys left that morning to go and do their Alpha duties with their father, I showered and got changed and I went to Ava’s house.
I stood outside waiting until I was sure that everyone had left before I snuck around the back
and I picked the lock on the door.
I went inside the house and I looked around the large house trying to find anything that might
help me.
I found the office and I knew that this is where Ava would keep everything. She’s mated to
Theo so there’s no way she would keep a secret from him.
I started looking through the filing cabinet and the desk and I even looked for a secret safe
behind paintings and crap like that.
But it was easier than that. One of the desk drawers had a false bottom, so I lifted it up and I
found several files in it.
I took them all out and I sat on the chair as I opened the first one.
It was all about me. And the second one was as well.
They were all written by my trainers. The trainers I had from all different species. And there
was a file on the bottom that looked really suspicious to me.
So I took all the files and I put the desk back together before I walked out of the office and I
left out the back door.
As soon as I got home I made sure that the curtains were closed and all the doors were locked because I wasn’t allowing anyone to barge in on me right now.
I put the files on the table and I looked at them for a while without doing anything. I was actually scared to look at them. But I knew that the answers were in there.
I just wasn’t sure if I wanted to know what the answers were right now.
