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."

like a tired sigh.

muffled but still audible through the window. "Buried

"I feel a little bad for the

"Me too."

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

just live in his pocket, so we’re

Ivy somehow," I say finally. "It’s mentioned her twice in a roundabout kind

"You

to poke Lucas’ cheek.

lips quirk up.

in his voice makes my chest feel all gooey and

to stare at me. "You have such a big heart. And

and I glance away. "I’m just trying not

darkening. "It’s strange though, isn’t

You said they disappeared, but you didn’t really get into it." Granted, most of our conversations revolved around Ryder and the Fae princess when he returned. "Can

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

he collects his thoughts. Even Selene lifts her head, her ears pricked forward

we were heading to Jericho, we

sod house? Like...

Inside..." His voice drops. "We found five wolves. Five of

tightens.

ambush. Missing scouts since we arrived here.

run into a few of those; reanimated, but strange. Or

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