Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 376

Chapter 376 Lisa: First Kill

LISA

Mira stands in front of me, fully wolfed out, gray fur bristling.

Snow crunches beneath my boots as I back a little further away.

Something isn't right. Ten massive wolves wrestle with the Westwood wolves, brutally aggressive, and yet not a single one glances my way.

A gray wolf—one of our guards, I'm pretty sure—flies past us, blood matting his fur. He slams into a tree with a sickening crack. My stomach lurches. I can't recognize the wolves by sight like Ava does, because they all look alike. Only Kellan stands out from the rest, a little larger and more russet than gray.

He launches at two attackers, his teeth finding purchase in one's throat, trying to pull him to the ground. But these wolves don't seem to notice pain.

The brace on my wrist is warm, already charged with a few drops of blood and ready to fire. But there's no way I can use it with them all tangled together like this. I'm as liable to hit one of my guards as I am an enemy.

My fingers hover over the brace. If I can just get a clear shot...

But it doesn't look like that's happening anytime soon.

Another guard crashes nearby, his leg bent at an impossible angle. Still, not one of the attacking wolves turns our way. It's like Mira and I are invisible, or...

"They're only targeting the pack," I murmur.

But how do they know?

Kellan roars in pain as three wolves pin him down. My heart leaps into my throat. The brace grows hot against my skin, responding to my panic.

But why avoid me? Unless...

Unless someone wants me alive.

No. That's crazy. Who would—

bounding behind me in an instant. Before I can

lock up as a primal part of my brain screams

sprays across pristine white in my peripheral vision, and I jerk around while stumbling back, slipping in the

of me, and I'm already raising my

No.

My whole body trembles.

before me, but she's wrong. All wrong. Her delicate features remain unchanged, that same pixie-like face that had brought me food in that dark cell. But power radiates from her. Or something does, anyway, with an aura of darkness and fire. Her unnatural green eyes practically glow like fluorescent toxicity, and her skin... her skin

but now it scrapes against my ears like broken glass. It's strange, like it isn't her speaking, even though

brace is right there, charged and ready, aimed straight for her face. But I can't say the words. Can't

beautiful eyes hold me captive, as if all this freedom is

move. My lungs won't work. The sounds of fighting fade to a distant roar as those toxic

cell. Just like every nightmare

I'm not the same helpless girl I was then. This time I have power of

can see

orange and gold. Something large enough to contain all my terror. All my rage. All the helplessness of those days lost in darkness. The grief over Mira's

of confusion, her

away the darkness that writhes beneath her skin. The flames would consume her from

"Fire."

away. She's mere feet from me, with Mira's blood splashed on her face and clothes.

fifty yards out. Destroying them so they teeter and fall, no longer

with this thrall of the

lance so clearly depicted in my head, in the horrible death I'm wishing upon

all the rage held in my

her chest, just as I

eyes widen with shock. Her mouth forms a perfect 'o' of surprise. Then the flames burst outward from the impact point, consuming her

like burning hair mixed with rotting meat. My stomach heaves as memories of that dark cell flood back, but this

and bone burning away to

engulfing her entire body. Her form becomes a silhouette of pure light, so bright it burns spots in my vision. Then she disappears, crumbling into nothing but ash that scatters across the

even have time to

my boots is stained with Mira's blood, and now the air is thick with

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