Tangled
Chapter 15
15 Ava: Settling In (I)
Waking up with a dog is both better and worse than waking to an alarm.
Selene starts with a cute little nose bumping against my hand. Then a head burrowing beneath it. Then her entire body on mine, as her dog breath–which smelled particularly fishy–assaults my nose.
She finishes it off with a low, mournful howl, and I
open my eyes with a groan. “I’m up. I’m up. Come on, Selene. You couldn’t let me sleep for fifteen more
minutes?”
Her huff sounds a lot like you slept for six hours, you’ll
be fine to me, but I rub her ears and roll out of bed anyway, only to screech a few seconds later when something sharp tries to murder my foot.
“Shit! Ow, ow, ow. Fuck. Oh, my God. I’m dying. Holy shit.” I fall back onto the bed and check the bottom of
my foot. Only a little bleeding where something sharp broke the skin, and a nice big scratch. I grab my glasses and peered at the floor, shocked to see a purple crystal there.
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Selene must have gotten into something overnight, because that was not there last night.
I shoot her a dark look. “This is the thanks I get for giving you a home?”
My sweet little husky just tilts her head, staring at me like I’m stupid, and I sigh, tossing the crystal onto my night stand. For a second, I feel a tingle on my
fingertips, but when I grab it again and hold it in my palm, there’s nothing.
Weird.
ever–present aching pain in my chest seems subdued, almost as if there’s some sort of barrier between
magical properties, but Dad
not.
I spin the crystal around, lifting it to the
neck.
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She’s at my door again by the time I
thud down the stairs on the side of The Novel Grind’s building, and a sign on the
the door.
from the premises for the next 48 hours. This is to facilitate bonding with your new
I swear she sounds amused. I’ve learned in these past few days
their human emotions when shifted into
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disconnect from that.
a madman. He starts talking as soon as my mouth opens, holding up a hand to stop my torrent of mild outrage. “Don’t even think about it, Ava. Martha agrees. You’re banned. Go home, relax, get to know your new roommate. You
as my mouth opens and closes as all my
glance down to see Selene with her ears back
I sigh.
But I’m going to hate every second of
rest.”
it’s paid time off, for–um, I think she called it maternity
close it again. Yup, I’m
fish face.
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are still babies, so get out.” He winks before
doors doesn’t fit a bookstore cafe’s ambience.
again. “I guess we can just… go home?” Because what else am I going to do? I could go hiking, but I don’t know the area. With my luck, I’d get lost in the middle of miles of evergreens, with
me in that moment that I have no
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