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.
aching pain in my chest seems subdued, almost as if there’s some sort of barrier between it and my
Dad always said it was human
not.
meant to hang off a chain. I spin the crystal around, lifting it to the light to admire its colors. “Pretty. Think I should get a chain for this?” I ask, as if
neck.
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time I dash outside,
and a sign on the door has
the door.
banned from the premises for the next 48 hours. This is to facilitate bonding with your new dog and to
few days that I can’t stop
They do have their human emotions when shifted into their wolf
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disconnect from that.
holding up a hand to stop my torrent of mild outrage. “Don’t even think about
fish as my mouth opens and closes as all my
Selene with her ears back and her eyes twice as large as
I sigh.
But I’m going to hate
rest.”
Martha said it’s paid time off, for–um, I think she
open my mouth, then close it again. Yup,
face. “Oh. that’s…”
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Martha says fur babies are still babies, so get out.” He winks before slamming the door in my face.
actually slam, of course. It has a built–in soft close, because banging doors doesn’t fit a bookstore cafe’s ambience. It’s just
I don’t know the area. With my luck, I’d get lost in the middle of miles of
me in that moment that I have
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