Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 258

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

uncomfortably, realizing that I've shredded my last piece of bread into little more than crumbs.

your dog-wolf are with your alpha. From what I understand,

Not leave Lucas'

the ladder

with Selene again?" I ask, throwing the question to any of them to

shakes his head. "I am no expert on

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

the first time I've heard it broken down in such a way. "What

about forty

"Can you reach—"

me off gently, sadness in her

needs to see

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

takes time until you

"Not at odds, but she's been quieter lately, and I question

out of

to meet your allies—the journey to your pack is safer in these rural areas," Acarus says, his voice calm and reassuring. "There's little

heart leaps in joy, but Vanessa's brow

presence, how is Lucas being

My mind had been so

point. "He's in a small hospital run

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