Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 396

Chapter 396 Ava: Cell Towers

I don't trust her, Selene says, coming out from me to stare suspiciously at the door Ivy closes behind her.

The walk back feels longer, my boots crunching through snow as my mind churns. Something about Ivy's story nags at me, like a splinter under my skin. It leaves me uneasy and uncomfortable, but I can't pinpoint why.

"Selene, could you ask around about the attack?"

She trots beside me, staring at me with her sharp blue eyes. Why do you want to know about that?

"I can't put my finger on it. It's just strange. Maybe I'm being paranoid." Lord knows I've got serious issues with the woman. Paranoia feels far too natural around her. Of course, she encourages it with her strange behavior and passive-aggressive nature, but… I don't know.

There's something about this. I just know it.

You think she's lying?

"No, no. Not that."

She was too nice?

"No." Frustrated by my own inability to understand what's bothering me, I kick at the snow compacted to the side of the trail. "It's probably nothing. I'm just—"

Her presence felt strange to me, too, Grimoire offers, sounding thoughtful. I paid little attention, but it was strange. I don't know why, either.

Maybe that was it. "Think she was affected by some taint she passed by?"

It could be. We haven't had much experience with the early stages of exposure. We can keep an eye on her.

know if

time. It can manifest in many different ways,

possibly be it. It doesn't seem right,

me face-first into a snowbank. I hop and skip a few

prick forward. Twenty? Thirty? And yet we've only

My steps slow.

The corruption near Wolf's Landing has been contained. The rogues have been affected elsewhere, completely oblivious to

wolves who venture out further? The ones who

been touched by the taint but aren't showing symptoms yet? What if they're like Ivy—something's off but we can't quite place what? If Ava isn't near them, would

back, not wanting to alarm anyone unnecessarily. "Grimoire, is there a way to scan everyone? To see if others feel wrong

scanning I do isn't that in depth. I'm not sure if I can

is much tighter, to search for that

I need to spend more

Yes.

* * *

today; he's in the debriefing tent again, with Kellan. Ryder and Vester are gone on

kiss to Lucas's cheek, catching the tail end of their conversation. Something about cell towers makes me

about the

face tightens.

"Since when?"

happened." His voice carries a weight that makes my earlier worries

before holding it out to me. The video

face fills the screen, her usual

OF EMERGENCY" in bold red letters. The president is dead. Not

attack on the White House... Vice President Matthew Collins has

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