Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 120

Chapter 120 Ava: Vampire's Call

"If you ever need me, child, simply light a candle and call my name. I'll find you."

My eyes snap open in the middle of a deep sleep, and my heart races, a thunderous pounding in my chest that shakes my entire body.

The dream was too real, too close to memory. Selene's ears perk up as she lifts her head from the foot of the bed. What's wrong, Ava?

I shake my head, eyes darting to the door. Kellan's somewhere in the apartment, ever present, always listening. I think I know how to contact Sister Miriam. The maybe-vampire lady.

Selene's blue eyes widen. How? She sits up, her full attention on me.

When she visited me before the ceremony, she said if I needed her, I should light a candle and call her name. That she'd find me.

Tell me everything, Selene says, her voice gentle in my mind. Every detail.

I recount the memory, the cloying scent of incense, the invasive way she touched me, her cryptic words. The dread and intrigue she instilled in my mother.

Your mother fears her, Selene muses. As she should. Vampires are not to be trifled with.

But she might have answers. About what I am. What's happening to me. She seemed to know.

Selene is quiet for a long moment. Vampires are ancient, powerful creatures with their own agendas. She may help you, but there will be a price. There always is, with their kind.

I swallow hard, a shiver running through me. I'll be careful. I promise.

Try to sleep, Selene says, curling back up. We'll talk more tomorrow.

I nod, sinking back against the pillows. But sleep is elusive, my mind spinning with possibilities and fears.

Sister Miriam's red eyes follow me into my dreams, her silken voice a whispered promise. "I'll find you."

I toss and turn, the sheets twisting around my legs. Power pulses under my skin, a restless itch I can't scratch.

What if she's the key? What if she can unlock the mystery inside me, teach me to wield the elements like weapons?

But Selene's warning lingers, a cold weight in my stomach. There will be a price. With vampires, there always is.

struggles. Outside, the moon is bright, almost full. Its call sings in my

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pass

Westwood. I don't know the details, but I do know that the search for

told, they're no closer to finding them. But the fact that they've been so

but things have changed. I'm stronger and faster, and he's begun

learn to fall," he declares out of no-fucking-where, popping into my field of vision like one of those winding pop-up toys. I manage to keep

"Fall?"

smacking me in the face. It's raining

curls. "Yes, Ava.

we were going to learn

you think you're going to learn that without first learning how

I don't want to admit he does, so I cross my arms and

how

"Oh, do you now?"

from weathered and unimpressed to having my

out of my lungs in the

takes time to re-learn how to breathe

"Get up," he barks.

feet is an effort, my tailbone throbbing

a sack of potatoes. Bend your knees, tuck

before throwing me down. He'd just laugh. So I grit my teeth

what he

back hits the

"Again," Jericho orders.

I struggle to my feet. Each time, he barks out a correction. It's always something. How I hit the ground. How I get

How my body moves.

For being something foam and

Lisa. She's with Kellan, who's putting her through some kind of calisthenics

tugs at my heart as I watch them. What I wouldn't give to trade places

me again, and

I do my best to anticipate the fall, determined

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