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—

in an instant. Before I can turn, something whistles behind

as

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

in front of me, and I'm

No.

My whole body trembles.

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

Lisa." Her voice carries the same musical lilt I remember, but now it scrapes against my ears like broken glass. It's strange, like it isn't

aimed straight for her face. But I can't say the words. Can't make my body respond to my mind. I'm frozen in fear and memories I've done my

me captive, as if all this freedom is

My lungs

cell. Just like every

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

head, all I can see is a giant

orange and gold. Something large enough to contain all my

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

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

"Fire."

from me, with Mira's blood splashed on her face and clothes. With just

trees, perfecting my aim from fifty yards out. Destroying them so they

with

head, in the horrible death I'm wishing upon this woman. This person I once thought of as a victim, and now see

with all the rage held in my soul. She has less than a second to react, and it

her chest, just as I

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

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

flesh and bone

so bright it burns spots in my vision. Then she disappears, crumbling into

didn't even have time

stained with Mira's blood, and now the air is thick with smoke that carries particles

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