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 it and my
magical properties, but Dad
not.
hang off a chain. I spin the crystal around, lifting it to the
neck.
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rush Selene out the door, telling her to find a place to potty as I get dressed in record time. She’s at my door again by the time I dash outside, finishing the messy bun I’d corralled my hair into. I’ve been pondering
on the door has my pace slowing, before I stop,
the door.
with your new dog and to rest from your workaholic tendencies. Don’t worry, we’ve got everything
she sounds amused. I’ve learned in these past few days
side effect of being raised with wolf shifters. They do have their human emotions when shifted into
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disconnect from that.
talking as soon as my mouth opens, holding up a hand to stop my torrent of mild outrage.
and closes as all my arguments dissipate in the face of his loony smile and
her ears back and her eyes twice as large as normal. Or maybe it’s just in my head.
I sigh.
hate
rest.”
it’s paid time off, for–um, I think she called it maternity
it again. Yup, I’m for
fish face. “Oh.
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fur babies are still babies,
built–in soft close, because banging doors doesn’t fit a
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 no access to any of the local rivers, and get eaten by
that moment that I have
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