The Last Lycan (On Hold)

Ten

Steele puts Ava down on the bed and when the contact is lost between the two, silence for a short while, Steele thought the pain his mate was in was vanishing, but it would soon come back.

He left her on the bed alone and sat down on his chair, his eyes never leaving the flesh of his new mate.

She was of small in height compared to his own six one height. Her dark blonde almost brown hair tied up in a messy ponytail. The exercise clothes she wore showed every curve on her body, from her large hips and thighs to the curvature of her breasts and waist.

Steele licked his lips at the thought of having his little mate underneath him.

It wasn’t long after that Ava began to wake up and yet again, she was in an unfamiliar place, “Now where the f**k am I?” she demands to know.

“Looks like someone has a foul mouth” Steele warns his mate, despite him having his own bad tone, others weren’t allowed.

Ava looks over to Steele and sits up too quickly, her head goes into a spin and she almost falls off the bed.

Holding her head, Ava waits for the spinning to stop.

“You still haven’t answered my question” Ava says.

“My tent, which is where you’ll stay until we return to my pack territory” he tells her.

Ava lets go of her head and looks right at him. “Looks like the rogue Alpha has a sense of humour” she says as she gets to her feet.

She wasn’t staying here.

But Steele wasn’t giving her a choice.

When she moved towards the door, he reacted and grabbed a hold of her arm, a little roughly, Ava cries out in surprise and pain.

Steele pulls her back to the bed and forces her to sit back down on it.

“Like I said, you’re not going anywhere” he speaks, his tone deathly low and menacing, but Ava didn’t care, it didn’t bother her. He wasn’t the first asshole Alpha she came across, but he was the first rogue Alpha.

She was leaving and he couldn’t stop her.

“You can’t keep me here” Ava cries out and gets up to leave.

Steele nods his head “Yes I can, you are my mate, I can do what I want” he says.

Ava laughs which annoys Steele. She gets close to the exit Steele blocks her. His large figure blocking her only exit from the tent.

“Mate or not, you can’t control what I do” Ava bites back.

The one thing the moon goddess didn’t think of when she paired these two together was their hot-headed stubbornness.

“No but I can chain you up to keep you in the tent” Steele threatens.

Ava looked at him with disgust, “You wouldn’t dare” she says.

Steele smirked but there was something menacing behind his eyes.

He did.

Ava was chained to the bed, the ability to move about but not much.

Ava sat there with a scowl on her face as Steele sat at his desk reading through papers and marking down on maps.

“Let me go” she says.

Steele ignored her and continued his work.

Ava repeated those words until Steele got so irritated, he grabbed some cloth and gagged Ava, she shook her body trying to stop his actions, but he managed to do it.

She had lost the ability to irritate, as she moves her chained hands to adjust her seating, she hears the rattling of the chain and a mental smirk falls onto her face since she was gagged.

One of Ava’s training routines was using battle ropes to increase her upper body strength. With the chains held in by the ground she got into the stance.

Steele looked at his young mate from the corner of his eye in wonder. What was she up too?

Ava turned to look at the rogue Alpha and raised an eyebrow in mischief.

Gripping the chains in her hands, Ava begins her workout routine. Steele growled in annoyance which made Ava smile harder.

It was working, it would only be a matter of time until…

It didn’t take long, slamming his hands on the table in front of him the angry Alpha gets to his feet and marches over to Ava, grabbing her wrists he squeezes a little too tight as he lifts her up with them and throws her onto the bed.

“Shut the f**k up or I will make your life a living hell” Steele threatens.

Ava rolls her eyes. She tries to say something, but the gang bound around her mouth stopped her.

The tent opens and a guy walks in, he looks at Steele stood above his mate who was laid on the bed, bound and gagged.

Ava notices him from earlier and the other day in the forest, he was Leo’s older brother.

“Am I interrupting something?” he asks with an amused smile.

Steele turns to glare at his old friend, he wasn’t finding this funny.

“What do you have?” Steele questions his Beta, completely ignoring the fact that Ava was glaring at him.

When Steele found out about Lavender’s last name, he had his Beta search for her thinking she was from the Snow Stone Pack but that wasn’t right.

“Lavender Adams, goes by Ava, born to Alpha Samuel Adams of the Night Star Pack, twenty-one years of age, university student currently on summer break” Flynn trails off with his information.

“Night Star Pack are further south, so why is she up here?” Steele questioned aloud.

Turning back to Ava he looks at her with a stone-cold face, he had so many questions but none of them were present on his face.

Ava returned the stare, neither of them willing to break contact.

“What else?” Steele asks Flynn without flinching.

Flynn didn’t want to say “Um…” he didn’t know how he would react to it.

“Well” Steele said starting to get impatient.

“She’s up here training the Snow Stone Pack Warriors” Flynn says and takes a step back, he was in reaching distance of Steele’s hand.

The Alpha is the one to break contact and turns to look at Flynn, he must have got the information wrong.

“The high council would never allow a female to train warriors” Steele says. This made no sense.

“They would if she was a warrior” Flynn rushes out quickly.

Steele’s entire body tenses, his hands curl into fists and he turns on his heels back to Ava who was looking at the men converse with one another as if she weren’t there.

Stalking up to Ava like she was his prey; Steele lifts her shirt and Ava begins to wriggle trying to get him to stop.

Frustrated, Steele places a hand on her upper thigh making Ava freeze, the tingling sensation was the strongest she has ever felt, even more than she felt with Kyle all those years ago.

With Ava occupied with the feelings Steele used his free hand to lift up Ava’s shirt, there was nothing on her left side, which was where warriors had their markings, however there was a marking just showing on the right side.

“No” he growls out and lifts the shirt higher revealing her bra and the markings of a head warrior.

“This isn’t possible” Steele says.

Ava snapped out of it and tried to say something, but her mouth was still gagged.

With Steele so close she could see his eyes turn from silver to black in seconds. His body begins to shake, and Flynn stood behind him swore.

“Steele, you need to back up man, you’re too close to her, if you shift, you’ll kill her” Flynn tries to reason with him.

Ava’s eyes go wide at the mention of her potential death.

A growl rumbles in the depths of his throat “Tiberius, you need to let Steele back in control” Flynn tries again, this time with his Alpha’s wolf.

“No” he snarls out.

Flynn had nothing left he usually left him to deal with his anger on his own and made sure to clean up after him later. But this was a different situation, if they weren’t careful their mate, they had been waiting years for would end up dead because of them.

With the wolf fully taken over, he looked at his human formed mate and growled, though there was fear in her eyes and heart, Ava did well to mask it.

“Looks like you aren’t afraid of me” Tiberius speaks.

Ava yet again tried to talk but failed because of the cloth in her mouth.

Steele continued to shake; he was trying to keep his wolf in check, but Tiberius was pushing through.

Ever since he shifted, Steele could never let his wolf have full control, the few times he did, dozens of people got injured, he couldn’t control him, it was one of the reasons he was always angry, Tiberius was a strong wolf and his emotions reached beyond other wolves abilities.

Not wanting to stick around, Tiberius wanted to shift and feel the grass beneath his paws.

He forces Steele to his feet and Flynn jumps out of the way before he got thrown.

Ava realised she stopped herself breathing for a moment and was suddenly breathing heavily trying to slow her heartrate.

As Steele got further away from Ava the heat began to rise once again, only this time she was boiling form the inside out.

Flynn watched not knowing what to do, Ava groans in agony.

He hesitates for a moment but then goes to Ava to remove the chains and the gag from her mouth. She uses what little strength she had, it was as if someone had flipped a switch and she was vulnerable yet again to everything.

Ava practically crawled out of the tent she was held in and found Steele on his knees; bones slowly cracking so he could shift.

By the sound of the bone breaking, Steele hadn’t shifted into his wolf in a long time, and after the interaction Ava just had with his wolf, she could understand why.

Flynn saw Ava trying to make her way to the Alpha and grabbed her arm to stop her. Her flesh was hot and covered in sweat, she was burning up.

“You can’t go over there when he’s shifting, he could kill you” Flynn explains. But Ava was in too much pain to listen.

She pushes herself, almost on her hands and knees when she reaches him.

By now all the wolves in the camp had come out to see what was happening.

Ava drops to her knees and places a hand on his shoulder, she could see the fight within him.

Steele somehow manages to push through for a second, “You need to leave, I can’t control him when he shifts” he was never one to beg but his mate’s life was in danger.

Ava groans from the pain “Then you’re going to have to kill me, if you shift and disappear into the forest, you will return to a dead mate, whatever is happening to me it gets worse when you are away from me, and Tiberius is also making it worse”.

Ava collapses and is soon seizing in front of her mate, Steele uses every ounce he had left to control Tiberius and put him back where he was kept all this time.

A sheen of sweat covered Steele’s face from pushing against his wolves will.

Reaching down he holds onto Ava; it takes a minute, but the seizures stop, and he could feel her body cooling down almost instantly.

“Get Drew to my tent now” picking Ava up he takes her back to his tent to rest out of sight.

Drew rushed into the tent and sees Ava on the bed another coat of sweat on her body and unconscious.

“You better find out what’s happening to her right now” Steele demanded. He stood up to move away to his desk but her remembered what Ava said outside and he had no idea how far away he could go without causing her pain.

He slowly moved to his desk and sat down ready to jump up if Drew announced her rising temperature but there was nothing.

An hour Drew did multiple tests with what he had on him at the camp but there was no result with anything.

During that hour Ava was yet to wake up, this was the first time she had a seizure, things were getting worse.

Steele’s eyes never left Drew as he waited rather impatiently for his to give a diagnosis. “Well, what’s wrong with her?” Steele demands to know.

Drew stands up straight, an automatic response when his Alpha was talking to him.

“I don’t know Alpha, I have never seen anything like this before, I have also tried everything to wake her up but she won’t, she seems to have put herself into a coma to cope with the pain of what’s happening. She won’t wake up until it is over”.

Steele didn’t like that answer and stood up, his hands flipping the table in front of him, all the papers flying across the room “Leave now” he shouts,  Drew scurries out leaving Steele alone with his unconscious mate.