Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 377

Chapter 377 Ava: A Terrible Loss

The smell is everywhere. Blood. So much blood it pierces through the crisp winter air, making my stomach turn. The pristine white landscape ahead is no longer—violent arcs and puddles of blood mix with churned patches of snow, depicting the aftermath of battle.

The sled slows as we approach. There are a few unmoving wolf bodies on the ground. They aren't ours.

Except one, further off, surrounded by Lisa and the others.

"Lisa!" My voice cracks as I jump off the sled and rush toward my best friend. She sits motionless, the head of our fallen wolf in her lap. "Are you okay?"

It must be Mira she's holding.

My guards fan out around us, creating a protective circle. Vanessa rushes to the nearest injured wolf, her medical supplies already in hand. Not sure what she can do for what's clearly a broken leg, but this is her field of expertise.

Mine is… well, I don't know.

First, checking on Lisa. Then, figuring out what the hell we're going to do.

"I'm fine." Lisa's surprisingly calm, but it doesn't seem right. More like she's detached from reality. There's no emotion, no sense of self in her words. Lifting her arm, where her brace glints in the light, she says simply, "She didn't stand a chance."

Who? Mira?

Another betrayal?

No. Selene's voice is clipped and tight. These ashes were a body once.

Oh.

So Lisa…

Killed them.

Good riddance.

Yes.

be something wrong, because

not sure yet, but they smell

and bleeding, shimmies into some clothes he pulls from the sled, watching Lisa with a

slip by her to kneel beside the ash pile. Strange magic tingles across my skin. The residual energy almost makes my teeth ache.

Marcus stands near Kellan.

his deep voice carrying easily. "We

course, the hotheaded part of me wants to declare that we're uninjured and we can do it. But that would be stupid. We need a better

"What does Lucas say?"

on

at the ashes, I change the subject to what's bothering me the most.

oblivious to what's happening around us. "She says it's a woman associated with the Mad Prince. She was there during

Prince. A name I've pushed to the back of my mind since Lisa's return, buried under an avalanche of—well, so many things. He

searching for her

Damn it.

was, it's unlikely he would have found you since you learned to shield your powers. But I don't think this

"A thrall?"

Selene confirms. Just blood

child form, crouching to examine the ashes. "Blood magic lingers past death. This one was

This must be her. Unless it's another

does he have? Do

like toys, but they don't survive long. I was

know, but she's impossible to

heard from her in months. I don't even

stroking Mira's fur, lost in her own world. My knees sink into the snow beside her, but she doesn't acknowledge

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