Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 428

Chapter 428: Lucas: Pip (I)

LUCAS

If there's a button in the snow, there's a reason for it.

But there's still no hint of oncoming attack, leaving us all on edge. Is this another sick prank of the vampires? Lead us on a merry chase with nothing at the end, time and time again, until we become complacent and lazy?

Months of chasing empty leads has proven we won't fall for that tactic.

Fall back. I send out the command just as the air shimmers in front of me and a young girl falls about five feet to the ground with a curse.

"Dammit, they can at least calculate the coordinates properly," she mutters, pushing herself to stand.

She's a tiny thing, with short purple hair, wearing black jeans, a tight black shirt, and a lot of chains. There's one from her belt loop into her pocket, another from her shoulder to her belt, one from her wrist to her elbow—it's a strange aesthetic.

The growls of my pack echo. Vester takes point, hackles raised and teeth bared in a vicious snarl as he approaches the strange girl. Her scent carries traces of magic, but nothing like what we tracked here.

The girl's head snaps up from where she's been brushing snow off her black jeans. Her eyes widen, and the color drains from her face.

"Oh, Royal King, I'm so fucked."

The chains on her outfit jingle as she takes a step back. Her pulse races, the sound clear even from this distance. She's terrified.

Her ears are pointed under all that purple.

Fae, then.

already feel

pick it back up, her eyes darting from one wolf to

golden eyes fixed on our unexpected visitor. Someone wanted us to be here for this meeting, though our guest

my muscles, bones cracking and reforming as I return to human form.

bite. Quick and

No.

waist, then she covers them with her hands, nearly slapping herself with the frantic movement.

jingle as she trembles, and a laugh almost escapes me. Almost. The situation doesn't call for humor, even if her reaction

fabric scratches against my skin as I slip them on, still

already feel half-frozen against the snow, but I don't

and why are you

trembling intensifies. "C-Can

"Yes."

relieved sigh. "I'm Pip. Just Pip. And I really wasn't supposed to land here. Or now. Or in

"Why are you here?"

newbie, she won't mind if we're off by a few miles.'

We could, Aurum suggests.

Rejects?" My voice sharpens. "Who

her. "Not who. It's a place. I don't think I'm supposed to tell

snarls, and

"Okay, I'll tell."

She's easy.

working with a bunch of… uh, you guys, I guess. Maybe not you guys. I

the middle of talking, looking

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