Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 258 Ava: The Distance Between Us

By the looks on everyone's faces, they're thinking the exact thing I am.

"So, we won't only be fighting the enemy. We'll be fighting our friends. Family. Lovers."

My voice is flat and distant, the words feeling like they're coming from thousands of miles away.

"It is possible," Acarus murmurs, rubbing his eyebrow as he sighs. "Without knowing how they do it, how long it takes, what it involves…"

But my ears aren't listening. I'm thinking back to Sister Miriam and how she popped into my room out of nowhere to give me cryptic warnings.

"Sister Miriam knew what they were doing."

Acarus hesitates. "In a sense, yes."

I pin him with a hard stare. "She knew what they were doing and never told us."

Marcus and Vanessa's gazes go dark; Sister Miriam has been a solid ally of recent times, but her nonanswers have not endeared her to the wolves.

The man claiming to be Sister Miriam's son holds up his hands. "Don't look at me like that. I do not have power over the knowledge my mother divulges, or doesn't."

Marcus scowls, and Acarus sighs. "Understand, my mother is full of knowledge. Some relevant. Some not. Things that never came to pass. Things that did.

Most with clairvoyance go mad, living half in this world and half in another. Whatever information my mother deigns to share is a gift. It is not fair to put the weight of your world on her shoulders, don't you think? If she does it for you—then who next? How many more times must she go through several possibilities, never knowing which will come to pass?"

he puts it like

last piece of bread into little more than

From what

Not leave Lucas'

up the ladder to bizarre and

be to gain contact with Selene again?" I ask, throwing the question to any

head. "I am no expert

over thirty miles away. Kellan and Lucas have been known to communicate at fifty miles, though it requires a great deal of concentration. Most missions are created with these general guidelines of distance in mind. Of course, these

the first time I've heard it broken down

clears her throat. "It depends on the bond between them and their individual strength. Vester can only reach me about forty miles apart, but I can reach him from as far as one hundred. He can't respond,

"Can you reach—"

She cuts me off gently, sadness in

needs to see

think back to the times Selene and I have been apart. "I feel like my

are with your wolf, it takes time until you can think as one. You and Selene have been at odds,

at odds, but she's been quieter lately, and I

out of nowhere. "Happens to all of

safer in these rural areas," Acarus says, his voice calm and reassuring. "There's little established wolf presence here, so there has been no

in joy, but

she interjects. "If there's no wolf presence, how is Lucas

My mind had been so focused on the possibility of seeing Lucas that I'd overlooked the

nods, acknowledging Vanessa's point. "He's in a small hospital run by supernaturals with no affiliations. They're registered supernaturals, to be