Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 151 Ava: The Truth Comes Out (I)

"Ava?"

Disoriented after returning to Lisa's apartment, I can only blink as Lucas steps inside, looking concerned.

"Hi." The greeting feels stilted, but I'm still regaining my bearings.

There's something about Sister Miriam's talk about payment that bothers my mind, trying to pry loose some memory—but I shove it aside, needing to focus on the man in front of me.

It's dark in the apartment, but the TV is still going. Selene shakes herself before heading to the couch, leaving me with the soft impression of her presence in my head.

"You didn't answer your phone," Lucas explains, looking a little awkward as he stands there in the doorway.

"I didn't hear it." Now that he's in front of me, the idea of telling him everything… Is a lot harder.

It isn't that I don't want to, but that it's just—how do you even approach this kind of conversation? Especially knowing how much responsibility weighs on his shoulders.

But leaving him in the dark isn't an option.

"I brought dinner." But his hands are empty, which he only seems to realize at this moment. "Shit. I left it in the car."

"I'm not hungry," I'm quick to assure him, my stomach curdling at the thought of even adding a single sip of water to it. "You can get it if you're hungry though. And eat here."

"I'm not hungry, either."

When Lucas continues to stand there like an awkward teenager, my lips twitch.

"Come in." I'm the one to step toward him, grabbing his hand.

He slides his fingers between mine immediately, grasping on like he never wants to let go.

I ever doubt this

back of my head.

follows me to the couch like a puppy, and I have to stifle a laugh when

the corner of the couch with a little side-eye, but she

"Are you doing okay?"

answer cheerfully, and my eyes widen at the blunt honestly coming out of my

me with concern. Probably because of how

be concerned, too. Hell,

reminds me, and

Shit.

eaten Fae food. Isn't that what Sister

and I groan internally even as my mouth

Miriam behind your back, and didn't tell you everything. I have too many secrets and don't know how

his hand out of mine. The force of his glare is intense, causing my

fuck are you?

I try to say, but

hand, and he loosens his

Ava," I say

trust me enough to share her secrets. Who are you? What did you

growl to his words, and Selene air snaps in his direction,

the time being, unable to lie." Scowling, I smack his hand

fades

don't know. She already told me off for eating food she gave me without being more suspicious. Stop looking at me like

"Sorry."

thrown at him, and I pinch

have this level of diarrhea of the mouth with Sister Miriam, so why is it

any secrets, Selene offers, sounding

Great.

Just fan-fucking-tastic.