Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 463

Chapter 463: Ava: Blessed Silence

Chapter 463: Ava: Blessed Silence

"Spin, spin, spin like a top, watch the blood spill, splatter, drop! Pretty eyes, rolling back, souls escaping through the crack!"

"Thank the Goddess," Lucas mutters as I finish pushing mana into the last rune of the ward Grimoire taught me about ten minutes ago.

The ghost’s sing-song voice cuts off mid-verse, like someone muted a particularly disturbing children’s show. The sudden silence washes over us like cool water, and I breathe a deep sigh.

"Better?" Grimoire asks, his voice smug as he hangs upside down in midair.

Now he’s the only spirit in here.

I sink onto the couch, my shoulder brushing against my mate’s with comfortable, informal warmth. "So much better. You’re amazing."

The book puffs his chest out. "I know."

Selene snorts from her position as a warmer across our mate’s feet.

Lucas wraps his arm around me, pulling me closer. I breathe in his scent like it’s the oxygen my lungs crave. My semi-frayed nerves settle in the aftermath of the ghost’s obnoxious singing.

I’ve been listening to it all day; it’s the worst.

"We should put this all over the compound," he sighs, leaning his head back as he closes his eyes.

"The ward requires refreshing every twelve hours," Grimoire explains, his expression suddenly serious. "And it only has approximately a twenty-foot radius of effectiveness. It would be inefficient to ward the entire compound."

though it sounds more like a tired sigh. "I

audible through the window. "Buried deep where

feel a little bad for the guards stuck out

"Me too."

sit in comfortable silence for a while, Lucas’s fingers tracing absent patterns on my shoulder. It’s these stolen moments that feel surreal—pockets of normalcy in a world gone mad. His thumb brushes against the nape of my neck, and I lean further into

could just live

twice in a roundabout kind of way. And it wants to see the dream-eater.

his eyes still closed. "You should tell Clayton. He wants to know everything

up to poke Lucas’ cheek.

up. "Of course

voice makes my chest feel all gooey and full

that?" he says, finally opening his golden eyes to stare at me. "You have such

and I glance away. "I’m

falling apart and still making the right calls." He pauses, expression darkening. "It’s strange though, isn’t it? This ghost appearing not long after

our conversations revolved around Ryder and the Fae princess when he returned. "Can you tell

himself. He must have returned to his book form. It sounds

body tensing as he collects his thoughts. Even Selene lifts her head, her ears pricked forward in

to Jericho, we found a strange

sod house? Like... made

voice drops. "We found five wolves. Five

stomach tightens. "Westwood

the first ambush. Missing scouts since we arrived here. All

they... alive again?" We’d run into a few of those; reanimated, but strange. Or so Selene

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