Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 142

Chapter 142 Lisa: Chained

The sound of water dripping is the first thing to break through the darkness of my mind.

Plink.

Plink-plink.

Plink.

It's an erratic rhythm that leaves me uncomfortable.

The voices come next, soft, sibilant whispers. Evil. Whoever they are, they'd be the villains in any story.

Eventually, I realize the darkness is really just pain. Pain that throbs and aches in half my face. But why?

Vampires.

That's why.

My eyes fly open when I finally remember, and I struggle to sit up, blinking into the darkness.

I can't see anything.

Are my eyes open?

My hands won't reach my face, yanking against something cold and hard around my wrists.

Manacles?

Swiping my hands around, I can feel the heavy, rusted chains holding me down, bolted to the floor.

Fuck.

This is…

Really not good.

Ava. Is Ava here?

"Ava?" I whisper, but there's nothing.

plink, plink-plink of

the voices

Plink.

Plink-plink.

Plink.

and squeezing with a mania of isolation and fear. I try to move again, the chains rattling like mocking laughter. Frustration rips through my chest and I scream, the

the metal biting into my wrists. Pain sears through my arms, but I don't care. I have to

and twist, my skin tearing, blood trickling down my forearms. Sobs wrack my body, each one tearing out of

barely stand, the shackles forcing me to hunch over. My muscles burn from the awkward

Plink. Plink-plink.

the darkness. Shapes slowly emerge from the inky blackness. Rough stone walls, a small

I'm in a cell.

A fucking cell.

up in some vampire's dungeon like a gothic romance heroine. Except there's no dashing hero coming to save me. No one even

Plink-plink-plink.

if mocking my realization. I want to scream

deep inside. I can't shift into a wolf or

I hate this.

Kellan. I'd hated how he was always around. Hated his

was here

this any day

find me when

my eyes, hot and bitter. I

determination and unwavering loyalty. She won't give up on me. She'll

it be enough? Can they really go up against vampires and

don't know. I don't know anything

that I'm scared. I'm so

Plink.

Plink-plink.

Plink.

maddening, the irregularity of it. I want to

to taste blood and focus on the pain. It grounds me,

and Ava will find me. That Lucas and

to believe that. Because the alternative is too

around me, his voice

moment, just a moment,

Plink.

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