Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

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,

voices are

Plink.

Plink-plink.

Plink.

into my mind, coiling around my heart 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 sound raw

metal biting into my wrists. Pain sears through my arms, but I don't care. I have to get out. I have to find Ava. "You can't keep

Sobs wrack my body, each

the fight draining out of me. I can barely stand, the shackles forcing me to hunch over.

Plink. Plink-plink.

to adjust to the darkness. Shapes slowly emerge from the inky blackness. Rough stone walls, a small window high above my head. The

I'm in a cell.

A fucking cell.

my throat, escaping in a strangled laugh. I'm chained up in some vampire's dungeon like a gothic romance heroine. Except there's no dashing hero coming to save me. No one even knows where

Plink-plink-plink.

my realization. I want to scream again,

human. There's no magic or super strength hidden deep inside. I can't shift into a wolf or melt into shadows. Humans are weak and helpless against

I hate this.

around. Hated his grim determination to keep us safe, at

that he was here to tell me I told

his smugness over this any

find me when I don't even know where I

bitter. I let them

of her fierce determination and unwavering loyalty. She won't give

will it be enough? Can they really go up

I don't know anything

is that I'm scared. I'm so fucking scared and I don't know

Plink.

Plink-plink.

Plink.

every other thought. It's maddening, the irregularity of

hard enough to taste blood and focus on the pain. It grounds me, keeps me from

Ava will find me. That Lucas and the Westwood pack will tear this place apart stone by stone

Because the alternative is too

arms around me, his voice in my

just a moment, I almost

Plink.