Tangled

33 Ava: Selene’s Return

Panic seizes me as I pat frantically at my neck, searching for the familiar weight of my necklace and finding only smooth skin.

Where is it? How could I have lost it?

Hurriedly, I retrace my steps, dripping water across the tile as I scour the bathroom. I get down on my hands and knees, peering under the sink and toilet, my heart pounding with rising dread. Nothing. It’s not here.

Wrapping myself in a towel, I venture back into the main room, my gaze darting frantically about as I search for any sign of the missing crystal. I rifle

through the sheets on the bed, tossing pillows aside as my desperation grows.

Not there.

I get the bright idea to check my pockets, but it isn’t

there either.

Shit.

Fuck.

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33 Ava: Solone’s Return

you.”

I clutch the towel tighter around myself. “Thank you. I just showered, so it’s perfect timing.”

It dawns on me that I hadn’t even checked for a

change of clothes before showering. My brain’s been defective since I got here; it’s no wonder I didn’t notice the necklace missing.

I end up in a soft cotton hospital gown that buttons up in the back, instead of gaping open. Nurse Jenna left a cup of water at my bedside and showed me how to use my call light in case I needed anyone.

Too bad none of them can help me materialize a missing necklace.

I try to relax in bed; I can’t. Sᴇaʀch Thᴇ Findɴovel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

relax in the recliner

drink water;

wouldn’t be able to swallow that, either. The thought alone

nauseated.

only

14. 14.

36

Selena’s Retur

years

amazing how you adapt

even

It’s wrong.

comes in to check all my vitals,

energy, and I wake at sunrise feeling ever–so–slightly

the

to ask Alpha Clayton if I can go back to the scene

called down to the hospital because a strange woman

out of my skin with agitation.

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spoonful of orange jello in

have you been?!

…can’t…far…

is ebbing and flowing in my mind. I’m sure she’s saying so much more than I can hear, but the important word

their wolves exist with them. I’ve never heard of a

blossoms, relaxing every inch of taut muscle as I lay back in my bed. My breath escapes me in a

Selene is close.

have been running all night. I’m not sure how fast she can

after a few minutes.

hear you, her voice whispers, and

in my eyes.

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Their alpha saved me last night. I quickly give a

Are you hurt?

head, forgetting she

Are you hurt?

They said

goes silent, but I can still feel her. It’s good

have her back.