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Ava felt really sick. The last two days were like hell for her.
The scratches on her back were causing her pain. She did not know where to go and asked for help. In fact, the Epsilon Wolf had told him that no one could help her.
She could only wait to get her wolf to come back to her fully
She was missing her wolf. She was missing shifting in her wolf form in the forest. She was missing her old life.
She did not go to the university in the last two days. Her friends asked her about her health. She told them that she was a little sick, and that was why she could not go.
Though she told everything to Debra the next day of the party, she took their promise not to talk about it to anyone, especially Luke.
Ava knew that Luke cared for her, and like last time, he might go to Ian to fight for her once more. She did not⚫ want that incident to repeat again.
Today Ava got a call from Stephen; he asked her and her mother to have dinner with him and his father. It was the plan they made at the party that night. Ava agreed to go for her mother, even though she felt a little under the weather.
Stephen, on the other hand, kept saying sorry for whatever fan had done or said to her. Ava told him that it was not his fault. But Stephen told her that it was his responsibility to take care of her. Ava thought Stephen was a kind -hearted man.
In the evening,
Ava was dressed in one of the dresses Stephen had bought her. He sent all the dresses and shoes by butler to her house yesterday.
Ava looked at herself in the mirror. Her eyes shifted to her body.
In the maroon dress, she looked really beautiful. But in her eyes, she became self–conscious.
Ian’s words rang through her mind.
‘With this body, you can’t seduce me.‘
Ava looked away from the mirror. She looked down at the glasses on the dressing table.
She grabbed it and put it on. Her mother had forced her to change her clothes, otherwise, she would have worn something loose, as she always did.
She did not want someone to feel that she was trying to get their attention again.
Ava went downstairs and saw her mother in a beautiful, long red dress.
For the first time, she saw her mother putting on glamorous makeup. Her beauty blossomed with the way she styled her hair.
It was like her life turned colorful.
Ava’s eyes turned teary.
“Mom.”
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Her mother looked at her. Ava ran to hug her.
“You are looking so beautiful, Mom.”
She was happy that her mother was getting rid of her widowhood. She had been living alone all of her life. Ava could not even imagine how she was passing her days.
The woman who used to talk about death now would get a new life. She was going to marry her fated mate. No matter what age they would become, they would be together until death made them apart.
When they pulled away from the hug, her mother looked at her.
“Why did you wear glasses?”
“Mom, please. I don’t want to attract any attention.”
“Thank God, you have a beautiful haircut. Even if you did a high ponytail, it looked stylish,” her mother remarked and chuckled.
Ava could not help but laugh. Her mother meant that no matter how much she tried, her look still looked modern and pretty.
They left their house and found a car waiting for them outside.
Gamma Harper had already sent a car to pick them up.
It took them half an hour to reach the restaurant where Gamma Harper and Stephen were waiting for them.
When Ava saw the grand restaurant, she was stunned. That type of restaurant only allowed VIPs.
Then she realized that her mother was going to marry the Gamma of the pack. Who could be more important than the Alpha and the officials of the pack?
Harper and Stephen noticed them and stood up. They walked to them. Harper pulled the chair for her mother, which touched Ava’s heart.
She was delighted to see her mother getting such lovely treatment from a man.
Stephen raised his brows and asked,
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“How are you, dear?” Harper asked Ava.
She replied with a polite smile and asked about his health.
Harper showed his gratitude fo her. “Thank you, my child,”
“For what?”
“You helped me persuade your mom. Otherwise, she is a really strict woman. She would have never accepted my proposal.”
Her mother glanced at Harper, while Stephen laughed at hearing his father.
All of them talked about themselves for a long time.
Ava felt like Stephen got his caring nature from his father. As a gamma of the pack, Harper was really protective of his pack. However, he was protective of his family too. He promised Ava that he would take care of her and her
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mother.
For the first time, Ava understood what a family dinner meant. A table with the entire family, conversing and enjoying the time they had together.
She looked at her mother, who appeared to be very happy with Harper, and at Stephen, who was enjoying his father’s and her mother’s conversation.
He glanced at her and whispered,
“What happened?”
Ava shook her head and replied to him in a lower tone.
“Today I understand how others feel about their families. In getting a caring father who loves my mother, and a protective brother.”
Stephen lifted his hand and stroked her hair. “From now on everything will work out well for us.”
Ava nadded her head at him with a smile. Just as she turned her head, her smile faded.
Because her gaze fell on a boy standing a short distance away from their table.
He was staring at her with the same hatred in his eyes as he had on the night of the party.
She looked away from him when Gamma Harper noticed her gaze. So he turned his head to look at the person. However, he was surprised to see him.
“Ian?”
