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—

whirls suddenly with a vicious snarl, bounding behind me in

floods my veins. My muscles lock up as

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

front of me, and I'm already raising my arm, aiming

No.

My whole body trembles.

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 seems to

it scrapes against my ears like broken glass. It's strange, like it isn't

words. Can't make my body respond to my mind. I'm

hold me captive, as if all this freedom is nothing more than

her skin stretch outward, reaching for me with grasping tendrils. My legs won't move. My lungs won't work. The sounds of fighting fade to a distant roar as

cell. Just like every nightmare since. I can't do

this isn't before, and I'm not the same helpless girl

I can see is a giant

feet long and thick as my arm. Its tip blazes white-hot, the shaft a swirling inferno of orange and gold. Something large enough to contain all my terror. All my rage. All the helplessness of those days lost

melodic voice carries a note of confusion, her eyes moving to the arm I have pointed at

lance piercing straight through her chest, burning away the darkness that writhes beneath her skin. The flames would consume her from the inside out, turning those toxic green eyes to ash.

"Fire."

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

fifty yards out. Destroying them so they

no Westwood wolf entangled with

the lance so clearly depicted in my head, in the horrible death I'm wishing upon this woman. This person I

it comes as no surprise as at all as the lance bursts forth, blazing with all the rage held in my

into her chest, just as

a perfect 'o' of surprise. Then the flames burst outward from the impact point, consuming her in

acrid and sweet, like burning hair mixed with rotting meat. My stomach heaves as memories of that

and bone burning away

Her form becomes a silhouette of pure light, so bright it burns spots in my vision.

didn't even have time to

death. The snow beneath my boots is stained with Mira's blood, and now the air is

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