Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 181

Chapter 181 Ava: Twenty Laps Around the Track

Muddy-Blue Eyes turns back in my direction, and while I can't sense any sort of real respect or care, he at least reclaims a professional air when he addresses me.

Before he can ask anything important, I have an odd, niggling little bug in my ear from what he'd said a few moments ago. "Five miles around the track is twenty laps?" I ask, with a faint frown.

"I—what?" His confusion is clear in his wrinkled brow and hesitation. "Yes. Twenty laps."

"Not twelve?"

"No. It's twenty. Four laps to a mile."

My memory is very clear of my torture during training, and I know that can't be right. "Jericho told us to run five miles, and it was always twelve laps."

"Beta-Mentor Ashbourne?" Muddy-Blue Eyes looks astonished, his brows rising. "Only twelve laps? Are you sure?"

"Positive. He had us count them." The memory of my jello-legs after each lap have me shuddering. "It was torture."

"Torture? She's been blessed by the Moon Goddess for his favor, and she calls it torture," Muddy-Blue Eyes' partner mutters, looking out the window and bringing his hand to his lips in a gesture of faith I've seen often in Westwood, but almost never in Blackwood.

It's always the older wolves who do it.

"Perhaps Beta-Mentor Ashbourne is soft on newbies?" I suggest, and Muddy Blue Eyes shakes his head in a firm negative. Then I pause, rolling that name over in my head. "Wait. Ashbourne… isn't that Kellan's family name?"

"Beta-Mentor Jericho is Beta Kellan's father," Muddy Blue Eyes confirms. "When he stepped down as beta to focus on training young wolves, Beta Kellan took his place."

Ah.

The odd feeling between them now makes sense. It doesn't seem like a favorable father-son connection, somehow.

"I see." In a few minutes, I've learned more about the man who spent ages training me and Lisa for hours every day than I did when he was training us.

Another eye-opening experience.

laps nearly in half, instead of forcing us to run the full five miles—while Lisa and I bemoaned every mile, thinking we were really running

old man's ranking

miles might have

I say after a while, realizing both men seem to be

long since left, and I shift uncomfortably on the bed. It seems their constant presence has been replaced with these two,

and I didn't feel obligated to try and

These two…

before. I know they've guarded Lisa's apartment

even know

Blue Eyes snorts, before walking to the window and peering outside. "Kind isn't a word anyone uses to describe the Beta

only agree. Kind is

there, hidden in his

men stiffen, turning to glance at each other. Neither of them say a word, but

shoulders tense again, and Selene perks her ears. Something's happening. Maybe

I don't mean to; my fingers have been fiddling with them for a while, and my skyrocketing anxiety brought it to a new

Ouch!

wince as her claws dig into my thigh. Sorry. But my stomach is churning, acid eating through

Eyes seems to be done talking, I

head. "No one's

Well, that's good.

doesn't answer

seem on edge, taking station on either end of the room. Muddy Blue

be the new guards, because he shares a few quick words before closing it again, and their footsteps don't leave

movement is tense.

Whatever happened—it's significant.

going on?" I press, unable to ignore the

door finally speaks up, his words clipped and

chest.

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