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—

a vicious snarl, bounding behind me in an instant. Before I can turn, something whistles

veins. My muscles lock up as

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

front of me, and I'm already

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 and fire. Her unnatural green eyes practically glow like fluorescent toxicity, and her skin... her skin seems to ripple

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

captive, as if all this freedom

won't move. My lungs won't work. The sounds

Just

I'm not the same helpless girl I was then. This

all I can see is a giant lance made

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 in darkness. The grief

Marisol's melodic voice carries a note of confusion, her eyes moving to

away the darkness that writhes beneath her skin. The flames would consume her from the inside out, turning those toxic green eyes to ash. My lips part as I whisper the command that will

"Fire."

She's mere feet from me, with Mira's blood splashed on her face

perfecting my aim from fifty yards out. Destroying them so they teeter and fall, no longer

with

into this moment, in the lance so clearly depicted in my head, in the horrible death I'm wishing upon this woman. This person I once thought of as a victim, and now see as nothing more than a

lance bursts forth, blazing with all the rage held in my soul. She has less than a

chest, just as

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

is godawful. Nothing I was prepared for; it's acrid and sweet, like burning hair mixed with rotting meat. My stomach heaves as memories of that dark cell flood back, but this is

and bone burning

rapidly, 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

have time

back, gagging on the smell of her death. The snow beneath my boots is stained with Mira's blood, and now the air is thick with smoke

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