Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 226

Chapter 226 Ava: War is Here (I)

Magister Orion personally escorts us up the mysterious spiral staircase to two adjoining rooms, promising to begin my training in the morning.

The moment the door closes behind him, I pull out my phone, unsurprised to see no new texts or phone calls. Sister Miriam did say only the occasional ones text would come through.

So I call Lucas.

He answers on the first ring.

"Are you okay?"

His question is more of a shouted demand for an answer, and I hold the phone several inches away from my ear, blinking at the force of his volume. "Yes. I'm fine. Did you get Kellan's messages?"

"Do you need help? When can you come home? Why won't our phone calls connect? Is everyone treating you okay? Are you in danger? Have you eaten?"

"No. Soon. I don't know. Yes. No. Not yet." My lips curve at the way his questions barrage my ear.

"I miss you."

"I miss you too, Ave. So much." Lucas's voice softens, the rough edges smoothing into something tender that wraps around my heart. "I understand why you're there. I do. But I don't like it."

shift in conversation, Vanessa catches my eye, tilting her head toward the adjoining room. Marcus follows, the door clicking shut behind

same ultimate theme: Is the city safe? Can

I think. They don't have access here, Lucas. Sister Miriam promised. Even Sister Miriam

I'm okay."

suspicion in his words is both legitimate and

"No. Actually—"

I try to listen in, but it's impossible to clarify the words coming out of whoever he's talking to. Only Lucas' side of

the hospital and wounded, which has ice forming into an anxious ball in

an uproar in the Council." Exhaustion roughens his tone, grim and heavy. The ball of ice transforms into a lead weight that drops my

"What kind of uproar?"

separated from the Council. He's claiming we overstepped our bounds, abused our authority by allowing the takeover of the Blackwood pack. There have been five rogue attacks today. All concerted efforts, timed perfectly. We lost a

is impossible as my legs turn to jelly. Sliding onto the bed, I whisper, "What

means war

steals my breath, leaves me reeling. "What do you need me to

You're probably safer there than here, now. Blackwood is under our control, but only because they haven't attacked there yet. Our forces are too scattered, spread over too

denial rips from my throat, fierce and unyielding. "Westwood is my pack too, Lucas. I want to fight. I'm part

say. "It might be a blessing

want to

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