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

realizing that I've shredded my last piece of bread into little more than crumbs. "Where is

alpha. From what I understand, the wolf won't leave his

Not leave

straight up the ladder

close I need to be to gain contact with Selene again?" I ask, throwing

shakes his head. "I am

low-ranking members of the pack to their alpha is about fifteen miles. A delta can reach Lucas over thirty miles away. Kellan and Lucas have been known to communicate at fifty

is the first time I've heard it broken down in such

only reach me about forty miles apart, but I can reach

"Can you reach—"

She cuts me off gently, sadness in

She needs to

to the times Selene and I

a new bond. No matter how close you are with your wolf, it takes time until you can

odds, but she's been quieter lately, and

Marcus says out of nowhere.

as far as traveling to meet your allies—the journey to your pack is safer

in joy, but Vanessa's brow

wolf presence, how is Lucas

mind had been so focused on the possibility

"He's in a small hospital run by supernaturals with no affiliations. They're