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“Ava, are you okay?” Abigail asked as she rubbed Ava’s shoulder.
Since the moment Ava descended from the upper floor, she had been crying. Her friends were confused about her behavior.
Luke asked if anyone had said anything to her, and Ava simply shook her head in response.
Ava did not want to stay at the party anymore. She asked Abigail to send her home.
“Let’s go. I will tell my driver to drop you home first then will go to my house,” Abigail said.
“I am coming with you,” Debra told Abigail.
Luke looked at Ava and said, “Then I am driving behind your cars.”
Ava wiped away her tears and took a deep breath. She looked at Luke and Debra, then said,
“I am not feeling well. I will go get some sleep. So you do not have to worry about me.”
She tried not to tell them anything, and she assured them that she was fine.
She got in Abigail’s car and leaned her back against the seat then closed her eyes.
Abigail sat next to her and told her driver about going to Ava’s house. (1)
“What happened to you? If you won’t tell me, how can I understand?” Abigail said, holding Ava’s hand. Ava bit her bottom lip to stop the tears from flowing again.
“Is it him again?” Abigail let out a low tone.
She knew her best friend would never cry for anything else. The reason behind her cry was always Ian.
As soon as Abigail mentioned about Ian, Ava opened her eyes and turned her attention to Abigail. She hugged her and burst out crying. 1
“I don’t know what he wants. He always insults me. I even told him that I would not come his way. Then why does he just not let me live peacefully? Why is he doing this to me?”
Abigail got mad at Ian. Her hands were clenched.
“Do you think we should complain about him to Alpha and Luna? How can he treat you like that? You are no longer his mate. After rejecting you, what does he want from you? Does he want you to roam around him so that he can do whatever he wants?”
Though it was not easy to just go to head Alpha or Luna and talk to them about their son’s wrongdoing, Abigail could at least try because of Ava. Sh
could not see her like this.
“I don’t know, Abigail. I don’t want to make any complaints about him to anyone. I just don’t want to see him again.”
Abigail tried to calm her best friend. She was also confused by Ian’s behavior. If he did not like Ava and rejecte her, then why did he start to bother Ava?
When Ava reached her home, she said goodbye to Abigail. She did not forget to thank her.
She slowly walked to the door of her house. Before opening the main door with the keys, she covered her neck with her hair. 1
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Upon entering her home, she observed that her mother was engaged in a conversation on her mobile phone. Her mother comforted the person she was speaking with by saying, “You will be fine very soon.”
It did not take long for Ava to realize who she was speaking with. Her sweet and caring tone gave her the impression that she was talking with Harper.
Ava could feel the caring tone of her mother. By what Stephen said, Harper equally cared for her mother. When Ava closed the door, her mother noticed her,
“I will call you later,” her mother said, hanging up the call after hearing what the other person had said. She locked her phone and walked to Ava with a smile.
“Oh my my! You look so gorgeous!”
Ava realized she had almost forgotten about her makeover. Jan’s bitter words and actions made her forget everything.
Her mother hugged her, and they remained like that for some time.
“You don’t have to be afraid of anyone now. No one will dare look at you with bad intentions. You are going to be the daughter of a Gamma,” her mother said.
She spoke proudly as if Gamma Harper had told her all of this to reassure her about her daughter.
Ava broke the hug and looked at her mother with a small smile.
“Mom, I don’t need any protection,” Ava told her.
But inside her mind, she thought,
‘Even if they want to protect me, they can’t. Because the future Alpha is the one who is after my life.‘
Her mother placed her hand on her head. “Yes, my baby. You are strong. You are capable of defending yourself.”
“Mom, I want to go and sleep.”
Her mother glanced at the table. Ava followed her gaze.
“Mom, you haven’t eaten anything?”
“I had the idea that I would eat after you had returned.”
“I told you, Mom. I’m so sorry. Please have your dinner. I am stuffed already.”
She wanted to sit with her mother at the table. However, she was afraid that her mother would see the marks of Ian’s fingerprints on her neck.
“No problem, my baby. Goodnight. You look tired anyway,” she said, kissing Ava’s forehead.
Ava went to her bedroom. As soon as she closed the door, she threw her bag and high heels, then she slid against the door.
As she started to feel pain, she reached out and touched her chest. While her eyes remained fixed on the ground, she quietly shed a tear.
Her mind kept returning to the moment when Ian grabbed her neck and humiliated her.
He made fun of her. He proved to her that she was a ridiculous person who once fell for him. He verified the fact that her wolf was laughable. It kept howling for him whenever he got close to her.
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Ava stayed like that the whole night. As the sun rose, a ray of sunlight appeared through the window and landed on her face.
She closed her eyes and muttered under her breath.
“You left nothing inside me, Ian.”
