Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 195

Chapter 195 Ava: A Familiar Face

I never expected to add my former boss being held up by a flock of bodyguards, a solid thousand miles from Cedarwood, to my list of fucked up shit that happened today.

So it takes a minute for me to process what I'm hearing.

"Mrs. Elkins?"

Selene flattens against the ground, her ears going back as she belly-crawls her way to my bench.

Her bizarre demeanor doesn't even register in my head, because—well, frankly, she's been weird as hell for the past several hours.

"Ava! My dear girl."

Those familiar rheumy eyes and her welcoming smile have me so intensely, terribly homesick for Cedarwood that I have to blink like a maniac to keep the tears at bay. "Mrs. Elkins, how did you get here? And on pack lands?"

Vanessa follows behind as I push my way through the bodyguards, who refuse to let me get too close.

"Calm down, boys. She's a friend of our Luna."

Vanessa's at least forty years younger than any of these men, but they respond to her words anyway, letting me through their human barricade.

I've got to figure out how to wield whatever flimsy authority I have. Even Vanessa gets people to listen to her. Granted, she's a healer—no one wants to get on a healer's bad side. Not even the alpha.

Reaching the old woman, I can see that she's carrying a huge parcel, hugging it to her chest.

"Ava, my dear. Are you all right?"

Her hand shakes as she reaches for my face, as though reassuring herself I'm really alive.

"I'm fine."

skin soft against my palm. My mind is still working at wrapping itself around her being here, in the flesh, a

not that I'm not happy to see you, but...

that can wait." Her eyes, sharp despite their age, sweep over me with

gained weight. Even though I look

here of your own will? These

assure her quickly. "None of these people are the ones who took

at the bodyguards, their impassive stares unwavering under her scrutiny. Vanessa mutters something about bull-headed men before turning to

narrow, and she takes a moment, her gaze unfocused. Mind-linking, I realize. Probably

her tone apologetic. "But I'm afraid we can't let you inside without approval from the head of

understand completely." She reaches into her pocket,

Homemade, of course."

at the gesture, and I reach for the bag with a smile. "Thank you, Mrs. Elkins. You have no idea how much

close around the bag,

bodyguard in question. "What the hell?

my glare with a stoic expression. "I'm sorry, Luna, but we'll have to check

echo, disbelief coloring my tone. "Mrs. Elkins would never hurt me. She saved

blank-faced as he addresses Mrs. Elkins. "Ma'am, can you explain how you entered pack lands without detection? And how you made it all the

of my eye. Mrs. Elkins

are you in some

all on alert and intent on saving me even

imminently reasonable, and I'm wondering the same things. Not to

I'm about to hear answers I'll regret having

have accidentally stumbled onto me here, a thousand miles away,

something more

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