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.

in the recliner

drink water; I

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

nauseated.

keep reaching out for Selene in my mind, meeting only silence.

14. 14.

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Selena’s Retur

years

it—but it’s amazing how you adapt to change.

can’t imagine life without Selene anymore, even when she isn’t in my head.

It’s wrong.

asleep in fits and starts. Every few hours, a nurse comes in to check all my vitals, and it takes a long time until I can fall asleep

I wake at sunrise feeling ever–so–slightly refreshed and ready to take on the world.

the

ask Alpha Clayton if I can

doesn’t go well. Apparently, he’s too busy to just be called down to

crawling out

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of

Where have you

…can’t…far…

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

to me; all their wolves exist with them. I’ve never heard of a wolf that

of taut muscle as I lay back in my

Selene is close.

I’m not sure how fast she can run, but it must have been

I ask after a few

hear you, her voice whispers, and I

in my eyes.

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by the Aspen pack. Their alpha saved me last night. I quickly give a summary of events, feeling her presence strengthen

Are you hurt?

shake my head, forgetting she

Are you

car crash. I have some questions, though. They said I’m going into heat. They want

I can still feel her. It’s

have her back.