Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 202

Chapter 202 Lucas: Council (I)

Alphas arguing with alphas is nothing but a waste of time.

The dregs of cold coffee stick in my throat as I set my mug down with a thud. Fuck, I'm exhausted. My eyelids feel like sandpaper against my eyes, and I rub at them with the futile hope of easing the discomfort.

Forty-eight hours.

Two damn days since I've seen the inside of my eyelids for more than a blink.

I haven't had a chance to even speak a single word with Ava. Not even a text.

It's impossible to keep her a secret forever, but without knowing how far I can trust these other alphas—bringing her into this mess is a risk I refuse to take.

The last thing I need is for the Council to push back and demand that Ava be returned to Alpha Blackwood in order to prevent any more vampire attacks.

Jericho's worries have set root in my belly, growing an entire forest of doubt and concern. He's right. Ava's not enough of a reason to breach the peace we've upheld for so long. Far longer than any of our lifetimes.

There's something else there. Something I was too blind to see. And we need to act.

Now. Before any other tragedies come to be.

The stink of unrest taints the air, setting my teeth on edge.

He's been the

our strongest ally in the Council, isn't convinced that there's a concern

boundaries in Blackwood and Westwood. As sending a

of me, inside my wolf, screams that he's

without a chance to fight back. We've

beginning. A first strike

It's like herding cats. Suspicious, prideful, territorial cats, who'd rather bury their

clears his throat, his rumbling baritone cutting

back on track. We've argued enough. Alpha Westwood, state your request

to my feet, the chair groaning across the floor. All eyes

stalemate needs

incident. It's calculated. Deliberate. A test of our defenses, of our ability to

first step to whatever goal they

party in Alpha Ezekial Talon of Whispering Pines. He was friend to

his hair with wrinkles and scars all across his face. Even so, it's a testament to his power that no alpha challenge has unseated him in all

his true colors of late, despite having helped Xavier during my attack on Blackwood. Of course, then we had only asked

sides of the

neutrality is

the most, instead of acting in the best

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