Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 409

Chapter 409 Ava: Warnings

"You've gotta be fucking kidding me."

My food goes from delectable to soggy cardboard as my heart drops.

This isn't good. Book, what's happening?

Something's triggered the wards. Every single one. But it's strange; I can't sense anything.

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My chair scrapes against the floor as I bolt up. The wards alarm through my head, discordant and jarring enough to nauseate me. My breakfast sits abandoned as my feet carry me through the door; Elverly shouts something, but my senses are too busy with the racket in my head.

"Luna?" Brett asks, but I'm already running.

They all follow without another word, but my mind's tuned inward, my magic reaching out to the bright beacons of my wards. It isn't like a net that encompasses everything in the area, but direct lines; I wish I had the ability to sense everything like a net right now, though.

That's the thing about power. It's never enough.

"I can't feel what triggered them. Every ward at every site is going off. That can't be possible."

Neither can I, he replies. The magic feels strange. But going to investigate will be dangerous.

Whatever this is—it's clearly part of someone's plan.

"Not investigating isn't really an option, though." We have to know what's happening out there.

Snow whips past my face as I sprint toward my cabin. The familiar path stretches endless before me, my lungs burning with each frozen breath. My guards' footsteps thunder behind me, but I don't slow down.

Selene, I need Vester, Marcus, Greg, and Kellan at my cabin now.

On it. Vester left with Lucas last night, though.

Damn it.

burst through my cabin door, yanking off my coat as I head straight for my closet. My fingers fumble with the clasps of my

screaming in my head, but my

can sense. It doesn't mean nothing's there; it just means it's beyond my ability to sense

can you figure anything out

It's

"Is it the taint?"

least, not that I

I

as I strap on my last knife. Kellan

He pushes the door closed, his eyes sharp despite his breathlessness. He's

knife. "All of them triggered at once. But we can't find what set them

not going out there." Kellan's grim words halt my

"These are

aura of an alpha. It isn't as strong as Lucas, or even Selene. But it's enough for me to know he's serious. "Think about it, Ava. Every single ward going off at once? This

on the buckle. "Or

forces that thin? Someone's trying to entice you out of your safety net. I'll send out emergency

hard, but my instincts scream to protect what's mine.

"We're trained

a harsh truth I don't want to face. If

don't want lives on my hands anymore. Never

"How far

it to cover

like this to happen

know

reach Aurum either, Selene adds, her

turns to ice.

eyes, his face slack as he reaches through the pack bonds for the healer. After a tense

hollow to my

I got here." Kellan

Fuck.

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