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
Dad always said it
not.
if it is 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,
neck.
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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
side of The Novel Grind’s building, and a sign on the door has my pace slowing, before
the door.
This is to facilitate bonding with your new dog and to
learned in these past few days that I
a side effect of being raised with wolf shifters. They do have their human emotions when shifted into their wolf form, and it’s hard for me to
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disconnect from that.
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
closes as all my arguments
glance down to see Selene with her ears back and her eyes twice as large as normal.
I sigh.
hate every second of my
rest.”
possible, grew wider. “We figured. Martha said it’s paid time off, for–um, I think she called it maternity
mouth, then close it again. Yup,
face.
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are still babies,
because banging doors doesn’t fit a bookstore
Because what else am I going to do? I could go hiking, but I don’t know
occurs to me in that moment that I
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