Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 161

Chapter 161 Ava: Mom (I)

Selene perks her head up before there's a knock rapping against my door.

Vanessa, she confirms before I open it.

"The boys have dialed in," Vanessa announces as soon as she sees my face. "It's up to you. We can head straight to the hospital, or you can settle in and wait until tomorrow."

My stomach twists, heartburn coming out of nowhere to spread fire through my esophagus. "Oh." I could almost forget why I'm here, distracting myself with everything else.

"Tomorrow's just fine—"

"No," I cut in, shaking my head. "I need to talk to her now. The quicker we get answers, the sooner we can get Lisa back."

Vanessa searches my face, her brows drawing together as she weighs the situation in her mind.

After a moment, she steps back, motioning me out of the room. "I'll let Ves know."

"Ves? Oh. Vester." I've never heard her talk about him before, and their curious interactions earlier have me wanting to ask her what's going on.

But I'm not exactly sure how to casually bring up such a level of gossip.

Is it gossip when you're talking to the person in question?

Either way.

"You can stop staring at me like that." Vanessa smiles at me as we head out of the lodge, flanked immediately by two burly wolf shifters I don't recognize.

"Like what?" I ask, feigning innocence for as long as I can. It's embarrassing that she caught me.

Once we're both buckled in and Vanessa shifts into reverse, she says, "Vester and I aren't exactly on talking terms right now."

even if my ears would be perked as high as hell if

I don't agree about how to deal with you," she adds, flicking a faint smile in my direction. "He thinks you should stay in Granite City, on

Distaste is about the only thing oozing out of me now,

distracted during this

defend immediately, and

for you, and how he prioritizes you over the pack." She glances at me again, then back to the road. "It's rough when you have a fated mate. The pull is

remembering that she and Vester are also fated mates. "It is. How do you two handle

leans back in the seat, glancing in her rearview mirror. "And none of you are hearing a single word of this, or I will personally inform your mates that you've contracted a terrible,

bodyguards in the backseat, who all seem to shrivel at her

abuse of power," I whisper, even though they can hear every word because… well,

me. "Gotta stop the

"I'm not your—"

yes, I know.

don't like that she's

over the seat and

is so loud it almost blows out my mental eardrum. With those hulking brutes? No, thank you. Did you know they picked

lips quirk as I gaze out the window, watching the familiar scenery

howls in the backseat, startling all of

she hate the car?" Vanessa asks me in confusion.

cat in heat. "She's just

around all of us without slinking away is a

as the dog in question begins to

* * *

the drive, until one bodyguard finally gives in and reaches into the back, coaxing

the hospital, she's sitting in the middle seat, accepting the pets of both bodyguards as her

head.

though my mind is elsewhere

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